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Springer Search for the Causes of Schizophrenia Volume III 1st Editon 2011 Softbound by Heinz Häfner, Wagner F. Gattaz
This volume presents the contributions to the third symposium on the 'Search for the Causes of Schizophrenia'. The first symposium was organized by the Central Institute of Mental Health on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the University of Heidelberg in 1986. Its objective was to give an overview of the rapid development in schizophrenia research in a situation characterized by an excessive variety of methods and topics. It was our intention, through substantial contributions to topical areas of schizophrenia research and through intensive discussions, to further the exohange of hypotheses and results and thus open up ways towards new concepts integrating different methodological approaches or towards new models of explanation. The first symposium was a great success. The publication of the proceedings (Hafner et al. 1987) was received with enthusiasm and recommended in leading journals 'as the best available state-of-the-art analysis of current research on the aetiology of schizophrenia'. For this reason we held a second and a third symposium entitled 'Search for the Causes of Schizophrenia' under the same auspices and at the same place in 1989 and 1993. I Antecedents, Onset, and Early Course of Schizophrenia.- Birth Cohort Study of the Antecedents of Psychosis: Ontogeny as Witness to Phylogenetic Origins.- Antecedents of Schizophrenia: Moderating Effects of Development and Biological Sex.- Onset and Early Course of Schizophrenia.- Early Predictors of Onset and Course of Schizophrenia: Some Results from the Copenhagen High-Risk Study.- Neurobehavioral Studies of Schizophrenic Children: A Developmental Perspective on Schizophrenic Disorders.- Antecedents, Onset, and Early Course of Schizophrenia: Discussion.- II Schizophrenia: Disease or Syndrome?.- Brain Imaging, Psychopathology and Neuropathology.- Idiopathic and Organic Presentations of Schizophrenia.- Associations Between Regional Brain Abnormalities and Specific Syndromes in Schizophrenia.- Genetic Heterogeneity and Phenotype Variation of Schizophrenia.- Schizophrenia: Disease or Syndrome? Discussion.- III Brain, Receptors and Schizophrenia.- Multiple Dopamine Receptors: Implications for Schizophrenia.- Increased Breakdown of Membrane Phospholipids in Schizophrenia: Implications for the Hypofrontality Hypothesis.- 31P Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study of Brain Metabolism in Schizophrenia.- Positron Emission Tomography, Receptors, and Schizophrenia.- Brain Receptors and Schizophrenia: Discussion.