Schizophrenia/Bibliography

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• van Os J, Kapur S (2009). "Schizophrenia". Lancet 374 (9690): 635-45. DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60995-8. PMID 19700006. Research Blogging. ^[e]

Provides an overview of epidemiological, pharmacological, genetic and cognitive aspects of schizophrenia, a synthesis of the state of diagnosis, disease progression and therapy as well as a discussion of the overlap with other psychiatric disorders, such as bipolar disorder, depression, schizoaffective disorder and autism.

• Tandon R, Keshavan MS, Nasrallah HA (2008). "Schizophrenia, "Just the Facts": what we know in 2008 Part 1: Overview". Schizophr Res 100 (1-3): 4-19. DOI:10.1016/j.schres.2008.01.022. PMID 18291627. Research Blogging. ^[e]

Introductory part to a series of four articles on what was known about schizophrenia at the time of writing. Part 2 is on Epidemiology and etiology, part 3 on Neurobiology and part 4 on Clinical features and conceptualizations of this complex topic.

The series is structured around a list (given in part 1) of facts on schizophrenia, which are assessed in terms of reproducibility, relevance to the illness and how long they had been known

• Gregório, S.P.; P.C. Sallet & K.A. Do et al. (2009), "Polymorphisms in genes involved in neurodevelopment may be associated with altered brain morphology in schizophrenia: Preliminary evidence", Psychiatry Research 165 (1-2): 1–9, DOI:10.1016/j.psychres.2007.08.011 ^[e]

Provides an analysis of correlations between 10 volume-based brain morphometric measures and 32 single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 25 schizophrenic patients, tentatively identifying RELN, the gene encoding reelin, as possibly involved in ventricular enlargement, and PCDH12, the gene encoding protocadherin 12, as a candidate for genetic invovlvement in gyrification.

• Andreasen, N.C. & R. Pierson (2008), "The Role of the Cerebellum in Schizophrenia", Biological psychiatry 64: 81-88, DOI:10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.01.003 ^[e]
• Fusar-Poli, Paolo & Pierluigi Politi (2008), "Paul Eugen Bleuler and the Birth of Schizophrenia (1908)", American Journal of Psychiatry 165 (11): 1407, DOI:10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.08050714 ^[e]

Provides a brief biography of Paul Eugen Bleuler, along with a portrait and the etymology of the word schizophrenia.

• Crespi, B. & C. Badcock (2008), "Psychosis and autism as diametrical disorders of the social brain", Behav Brain Sci 31 (3): 241–261, DOI:10.1017/S0140525X08004214 ^[e]
• Nikhil Swaminathan, A New, Genetic Model for Schizophrenia Scientific American 2008, March 28.
• Harrison, P.J. (2005), "Neuropathology of schizophrenia", Psychiatry 4 (10): 18–21, DOI:10.1383/psyt.2005.4.10.18 ^[e]
• Shaner, A.; G. Miller & J. Mintz (2004), "Schizophrenia as one extreme of a sexually selected fitness indicator", Schizophrenia Research 70 (1): 101–109, DOI:10.1016/j.schres.2003.09.014 ^[e]
• Kegeles, L.S.; T.J. Humaran & J.J. Mann (1998), "In vivo neurochemistry of the brain in schizophrenia as revealed by magnetic resonance spectroscopy", Biological Psychiatry 44 (6): 382–398, DOI:10.1016/S0006-3223(97)00425-3 ^[e]
• Jablensky, A. (1997), "The 100-year epidemiology of schizophrenia", Schizophrenia Research 28 (2-3): 111–125, DOI:10.1016/S0920-9964(97)85354-6
• Barondes SH, Alberts BM, Andreasen NC, Bargmann C, Benes F, Goldman-Rakic P et al. (1997). "Workshop on schizophrenia". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 94 (5): 1612-4. PMID 9050825. PMC PMC34140. ^[e]

Provides a brief synthesis of expert opinions on specific aspects of research into the biological mechanisms underlying schizophrenia, along with a perspective from non-experts.

• Torrey EF (1987). "Prevalence studies in schizophrenia". Br J Psychiatry 150: 598-608. PMID 3307980. ^[e]

A meta analysis of incidence rates of schizophrenia across human cultures, which range from below 1 in 1000 people in the Amish to about 2-5 in much of the world, and up to over 15 in some parts of Sweden and Ireland. These numbers rise further still if one only considers the susceptible age range (usually taken as between 16 and 40 years).