Schizophrenia - Brossura

Jones, Peter B., Ph.d.; Buckley, Peter F.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0443102503 ISBN 13: 9780443102509

Casa editrice: Churchill Livingstone, 2006

Riassunto

Schizophrenia is a debilitating and serious medical illness that has a profound effect on the patient's life, as well as the lives of their immediate family, friends and carers. The symptoms and course of the illness vary considerably between individuals, making diagnosis and subsequent management a complex task for the clinician.
Extensive research into the causes of schizophrenia and its treatment outcomes has resulted in a rapid pace of knowledge growth. Consequently, advances in treatment options and management of the condition have been substantial in recent years. This book, jointly written by two experienced researchers and clinicians, aims to bring together all the latest research and current best practice in one easy-reference handbook for the busy clinician.
The book is written concisely, with accompanying full-colour illustrations to help explain more difficult concepts. Case studies enable the reader to explore real-life patients and review their care plans with commentary from the authors. Finally, an excellent reference list allows the interested reader to gather further information on specific topics for themselves. The book is full of new information and clinical pearls, written in a condensed, pocket-book format.
This new book will be a valuable resource for the clinician and encourage a better understanding and appropriate management of schizophrenia patients.

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L'autore

Peter B Jones MB, MSc, MA, PhD, FRCP, MRCPsych, FmedSci is Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. He read for his first degree in anatomy and neurobiology at King's College, London, before qualifying in medicine from Westminster Medical School. Following 3 years of general medical posts, Professor Jones began psychiatry at the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals in London where, after completing a masters degree in clinical epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and his PhD in psychiatric epidemiology, he was appointed as Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in1993. In 1997 he took up the Chair of Psychiatry and Community Mental Health in Nottingham, moving to Cambridge in 2000. Professor Jones' research concerns epidemiology of mental illness, particularly the psychoses, early life course influences on adult mental health and illness, and the interface between population-based and biological investigations and explanations, including genetics. Clinically, he directs a new service for people with first episode psychosis(CAMEO, www.cameo.nhs.uk) jointly with Professor Ed Bullmore, and is presently a non-executive Director of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.

Contenuti

Introduction and background
- What is schizophrenia?
- Presentation and natural history of schizophrenia
Epidemiology
- Who gets schizophrenia?
- How many people have schizophrenia?
Aetiology and diagnosis
- What causes schizophrenia?
- What are the genes doing?
- Genetic models
- The future for molecular genetic epidemiology
- Environmental risk factors
Prevention
Some history of the clinical concept and other thoughts about schizophrenia
- Dementia praecox
- Schizophrenia
- Problems with categorical definitions and operational criteria
Treatment
- "Typical” and "atypical” antipsychotics - what's in a name?
- Typical antipsychotics
- Atypical antipsychotic medications
- Non-pharmacological management
Management
- Acute psychosis
- First-episode psychosis
- Maintenance therapy
- Treatment-refractory schizophrenia
- Co-morbidities
- Future developments
Case studies

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Churchill Livingstone
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0443102503
• ISBN 13: 9780443102509
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 167