The encyclopedia of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease. According to the National Institutes of Mental Health, approximately one percent of the population develops schizophrenia during their lifetime. More than two million Americans suffer from the illness in a given year. Current research is unraveling the complex causes of this disease and leading to new and safer medications for its treatment. The Encyclopedia of Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders, Second Edition combines, in one volume, all the latest theories and research findings with a complete overview of the field's history. With more than 600 entries, it covers clinical and diagnostic terms, major theorists and researchers, archaic terms and treatments, prevalence rates for schizophrenia around the world, and more. The second edition features new and expanded entries on active phase of schizophrenias; atypical antipsychotics; brain tumors and psychosis; childhood-onset schizophrenia; environmental causes of schizophrenia; genetic anticipation, HIV and schizophrenia; medications, including Olanzapine, Quetiapine, and Risperidone; persons working in the field, including August Hoch and Emil Kraepelin; postpsychotic depression; schizoaffective psychoses; and seasonality of births in the psychotic disorders
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