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Author:   Ezra S. Susser ,  Alan S. Brown ,  Jack M. Gorman
Publisher:   American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Imprint:   American Psychiatric Press Inc.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9780880484992

ISBN 10:   0880484993
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   01 March 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Schizophrenia and Brain Development. Schizophrenia: evidence for its neurodevelopmental origins. Interaction of genes and prenatal exposures in schizophrenia. Prenatal development of the brain. Prenatal Infectious Exposures. Seasonality, prenatal influenza, and schizophrenia. Plausibility of prenatal viral infection as a risk factor for schizophrenia. Prenatal Nutritional Exposures. The Dutch Famine Studies: prenatal nutritional deficiency and schizophrenia. Plausibility of early nutritional deficiency as a risk factor for schizophrenia. Prenatal Immunological Exposures. Rhesus incompatibility and schizophrenia. Heat shock proteins and autoimmune mechanisms of disease in schizophrenia. Conclusion. Schizophrenia: closing the gap between genetics, epidemiology, and prevention. Index.

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Prenatal Exposures in Schizophrenia presents a series of elegant reviews of the compelling evidence for fetal injury in schizophrenia.... Drs. Susser, Brown, and Gorman's volume summarizes converging data from obstetrics, basic and clinical neurobiology, and epidemiology that suggest paths both to the cause and ultimately to the prevention of schizophrenia. -- Judith L. Rapoport, M.D., Chief, Child Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland

<p> Prenatal Exposures in Schizophrenia presents a series of elegant reviews of the compelling evidence for fetal injury in schizophrenia.... Drs. Susser, Brown, and Gorman's volume summarizes converging data from obstetrics, basic and clinical neurobiology, and epidemiology that suggest paths both to the cause and ultimately to the prevention of schizophrenia. -- Judith L. Rapoport, M.D., Chief, Child Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Author Information

Ezra S. Susser, M.D., Dr.P.H., is Chair of the Division of Epidemiology, at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He is also Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in Public Health at Columbia University and the Head of the Developmental Brain Disorders Department at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York, New York. Alan S. Brown, M.D., is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York, New York. Jack M. Gorman, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York, New York.

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