In Search of Madness: Schizophrenia and Neuroscience
R. Walter Heinrichs
Abstract
This book evaluates the progress of schizophrenia science by summarizing what is known about how patients with the illness differ from healthy people. The tools of meta-analysis are first explained and then employed to make the strength and consistency of these differences explicit. Beginning with the study of symptoms, then moving through the search for objective disease markers, findings on the cognitive functions, structure, physiology, chemistry, and development of the brain, this book is a journey into the enigma of madness and its science. Schizophrenia emerges as an illness that reveals ... More
Keywords: schizophrenia, meta-analysis, symptoms, disease markers, cognitive functions, structure, physiology, chemistry, brain development
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2001 | Print ISBN-13: 9780195122190 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2009 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195122190.001.0001 |
