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The Neuropsychology Of Schizophrenia

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  • Published: January 1995
  • ISBN: 978-0-86377-337-2
  • Publisher: Psychology Press

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Series: Brain, Behaviour and Cognition.

Schizophrenia is being increasingly viewed as a neurological disorder. The Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia addresses the key questions in modern schizophrenia research. How do abnormalities of the brain produce the characteristic signs and symptoms of this most severe and mysterious mental malady? Where are these abnormalities? How do they develop? How can we detect them? What clinical and cognitive effects do they have?

This new book is the first of its kind to tackle these questions in a systematic way from a number of allied perspectives: from phenomenology to physiology, animal behaviour to metacognition and from PET scans to paper and pencil tests. A number of authors from the United Kingdom and the United States have made contributions; all are acknowledged experts in the field. The chapters each contain a concise review of the particular topic, empirical data and also a theoretical overview.

The Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia will be required reading for all serious students of schizophrenia from both medical and psychology backgrounds.

Table of Contents

A.S. David, J. Cutting, The Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia: Introduction and Overview. Part I: Neuroimaging and Neuropsychology. T. Early, J.W. Haller, M.I. Posner, M. Raichle, The Left Striato-Pallidal Hyperactivity Model of Schizophrenia. P. Liddle, Volition and Schizophrenia. Part II: Information Processing. K.H. Nuechterlein, M.S. Buchsbaum, M.E. Dawson, Neuropsychological Vulnerability to Schizophrenia. M.F. Green, K.H. Nuechterlein, Mechanisms of Backward Masking in Schizophrenia. D. Hemsley, Perceptual and Cognitive Abnormalities as the Bases for Schizophrenic Symptoms. Part III: Neuropsychology and Neurodevelopment. E. Walker, Neurodevelopmental Precursors of Schizophrenia. P. Jones, C. Guth, S. Lewis, R. Murray, Low Intelligence and Poor Education Achievement Precede Early Onset Schizophrenic Psychosis. Part IV: Cognition and Metacognition. C. Frith, Theory of Mind in Schizophrenia. P.J. McKenna, A.M. Mortimer, J.R. Hodges, Semantic Memory in Schizophrenia. Part V: Clinical Neuropsychology. G. Dunkley, D. Rogers, The Cognitive Impairment of Severe Psychiatric Illness. K. Fleming, T.E. Goldberg, J.M. Gold, Applying Working Memory Constructs to Schizophrenic Cognitive Impairment. C. Panelis, H. Nelson, Cognitive Functioning and Symptomatology in Schizophrenia: The Role of Fronto-Subcortical Involvement. J. Cutting, Evidence for Right Hemisphere Dysfunction in Schizophrenia. Part VI: Auditory Hallucinations. P. Slade, Models of Hallucination: From Theory to Practice. R. Hoffman, J. Rapaport, A Psycholinguistic Study of Auditory/Verbal Hallucinations: Preliminary Findings. Part VII: Delusions and Delusional Misidentification. A.S. David, The Neuropsychological Origin of Auditory Hallucinations. H.D. Ellis, K.W. de Pauw, The Cognitive Neuropsychiatric Origins of the Capgras Delusion. R.B. Bentall, Biases and Abnormal Beliefs: Towards a Model of Persecutory Delusions. S. Fleminger, Top-Down Preconscious Perceptual Processing and Delusional Misidentification in Neuropsychiatric Disorder.