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1 online resource (428 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Overview; Part 1. Clinical Research on Risk Factors for Schizophrenia; Section 1: Environmental Factors: Epidemiologic Studies on the Etiologies of Schizophrenia; 1 Maternal Infection and Schizophrenia; 2 Prenatal Nutrition and the Etiology of Schizophrenia; 3 Obstetric Complications and Schizophrenia: Historical Overview and New Directions; 4 Maternal Stress During Pregnancy and Schizophrenia; 5 Advancing Paternal Age and the Risk for Schizophrenia; 6 Cannabis Use as a Component Cause of Schizophrenia; Section 2: Genetics and Epigenetics. |
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7 Schizophrenia Genetics: What Have We Learned from Genomewide Association Studies?7 Genetic Architecture of Schizophrenia: The Contribution of Copy Number Variation; 9 The Epigenetics of Schizophrenia; Part 2. Preclinical Research on Etiologies of Schizophrenia; Section 1: Animal Models of Environmental Factors and Schizophrenia; 10 Animal Models of the Maternal Infection Risk Factor for Schizophrenia; 11 Developmental Vitamin D Deficiency as a Risk Factor for Schizophrenia; 12 Animal Models of Prenatal Protein Malnutrition Relevant for Schizophrenia. |
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13 Animal Models of the Maternal Stress Risk Factor for SchizophreniaSection 2: Animal Models of Genetic Factors and Schizophrenia; 14 Disc1: A New Paradigm for Schizophrenia and Biological Psychiatry; 15 Mutant Models of Nrg1 and ErB4: Abnormalities of Brain Structures, Functions, and Behaviors Relevant to Schizophrenia; Contributors; Index. |
| Summary |
The Origins of Schizophrenia synthesizes key findings on a disorder that has been increasingly studied over the past decade. Advances in epidemiology, neuroscience technology, and molecular and statistical genetics have identified new putative environmental risk factors and candidate susceptibility genes, recasting schizophrenia's neurobiological nature. Providing the latest clinical and neuroscience research developments in a comprehensive volume, this collection by world-renowned investigators answers a pressing need for balanced, thorough information, while pointing to future dire. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Schizophrenia -- Etiology.
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Schizophrenia -- Etiology. |
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Schizophrenia -- etiology. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Patterson, Paul H.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brown, Alan S. Origins of Schizophrenia. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011 9780231151245 |
| ISBN |
9780231521925 (electronic book) |
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0231521928 (electronic book) |
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0231151241 |
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9780231151245 |
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9781281607966 |
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1281607967 |
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