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Going ahead with their plans, the Association for Research on Schizophrenia CARS), the Schizophrenia Research Group of the Institute of Psychiatry of the University of Milan and the Tito and Fanny Legrenzi Foundation organized the International Meeting "Etiopathogenetic Hypotheses of Schizophrenia: The Impact of Epidemiological, Biochemical and Neuromorphological Studies", held in Milan on October 3-4 1986. The Meeting was an excellent occasion for the exchange of information and the sharing of views on the etiological hypotheses of schizophrenia resulting from the latest research in the key areas of epidemiology, biochemistry amd brain imaging. We are very pleased and proud to have had so many of the leading researchers in schizophrenia with us. Their stimulating and friendly presence and their contributions made this Meeting a great success. We hope that this book, a collection of the various participants' contributions at the Meeting, will have an equally favourable reception. The Editors viii List of contributors N. C. Andreasen A. Breier W.
Christie The University of Iowa Clinical Neuroscience Klinikum Charlottemburg Hospitals and Clinics Branch, NIHM Department of Neurology Department of Psychiatry Building 10, Room 4N 214 Spandau Damm 130 9000 Rockville Pike D-1000 Berlin 19 500 Newton Road Iowa City, IA 52242 Bethesda, MD 20892 West Germany USA USA C. Cignarale M. Battaglia A. Calzeroni Chair of Clinical Psychiatry S. Maria di Collemaggio Institute of Psychiatry Institute of Psychiatry Milan University Milan University Hospital Policlinico -Pad.
Contents
Epidemiology.- 1. Negative symptoms: a follow-up perspective.- 2. Obstetric complications and cerebral abnormalities in schizophrenia.- 3. Genetic notes of schizophrenic disorders.- 4. Life events and schizophreniform disorders.- 5. Hypotheses on the seasonality of schizophrenic births.- 6. The retrovirus/transposon hypothesis of schizophrenia.- Neuroimaging.- 7. A neurodevelopmental perspective on brain pathology in schizophrenia.- 8. Neuromorphological correlates of schizophrenic disorders: focus on cerebral ventricular enlargement.- 9. Season of birth and cerebral ventricular enlargement in schizophrenia.- 10. Twin and family studies of ventricular enlargement in schizophrenia.- 11. CT scans of the brain in families with a high frequency of schizophrenia.- 12. Magnetic resonance imaging: applications in psychiatry.- 13. Neurofunctional assessment of schizophrenia: neuropsychological and EEG data of lateralized imbalancement of functions.- 14. In vivo studies of dopamine receptors in schizophrenia.- 15. Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging in schizophrenia: a preliminary study.- Biochemistry.- 16. Plasma opioid levels: a possible marker of neurotransmitter impairments in schizophrenia.- 17. Outcome after 10 years of apomorphine-tested psychotic patients.- 18. Noradrenaline, psychotic decompensation, and drug response in schizophrenia.- 19. The biochemical basis for the antipsychotic effects of neuroleptics.- 20. Schizophrenia: new windows.
