Provides state-of-the-art information about cognition in schizophrenia with a wide ranging focus on measuring and treating cognitive deficits.
'Overall, this is a useful and up-to-date volume, which anyone with an interest in schizophrenia would do well to possess.' Ann Mortimer, University of Hull in the British Journal of...
This volume tries to put current therapy - achievements, shortcomings, remaining medical needs - and emerging new targets into the context of increasing knowledge regarding the genetic and neurodevelopmental contributions to the ...
A practical guide on how to assess and treat schizophrenia and related disorders using cognitive rehabilitation.
This points to the importance of elucidating these endophenotypes in translational studies. Animal models may not mimic the full spectrum of clinical symptoms, but may act as analogies of particular behaviors or other pathological outcomes.
This book highlights recent research investigating psychological and neural mechanisms contributing to dysfunctional cognition in people with schizophrenia.
Highlighted by patient vignettes, this in-depth guide will be welcomed by all clinicians who treat patients with schizophrenia and want to know and document whether their interventions ameliorate negative symptoms and cognitive dysfunction, ...
Negative symptoms and cognitive impairment in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders
Divided into three main sections, this book combines the basic science (Section 1) with different types of cognitive deficit or neuropsychological presentation (Section 2), and disease specific chapters (Section 3).
Despite all research that has been devoted to schizophrenia over the last years, the understanding of the biological bases of the disorder is still fragmentary.
The book presents various treatment options, including assessment approaches, tools and training methods that aid in the rehabilitation of patients with psychotic disorders.