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Adolescent Psychosis
Clinical and Scientific Perspectives
- 1st Edition - February 8, 2023
- Editors: Ingrid Agartz, Runar E. Smelror
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 9 8 3 2 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 9 8 7 7 - 5
Adolescent Psychosis: Clinical and Scientific Perspectives presents new methodologies and novel scientific findings, with a comprehensive orientation into the genetics, phenom… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdolescent Psychosis: Clinical and Scientific Perspectives presents new methodologies and novel scientific findings, with a comprehensive orientation into the genetics, phenomenology, nosology, and long-term outcome of adolescent early-onset psychosis research. This volume discusses recent epidemiological studies, along with co-morbid aspects associated with other neurodevelopmental syndromes and somatic diseases. The book also provides suggestions for future research using a translational perspective, from genes to the clinic to and relevant phenotypes, biomarkers, treatment options and etiological aspects. Topics discussed bring together expert researchers in the field to represent different perspectives and future possibilities.
- Provides a comprehensive overview that integrates the latest research
- Features unique chapters on brain imaging, cognition and immune function in patients
- Focuses on potential risk factors, underlying genetics, family history, and epidemiology
- Summarizes or advises treatment opportunities and long-term outcomes
- Discusses relevance to similar psychiatric conditions
Clinical psychologists and psychiatrists in research and practice, students of psychiatry, psychology and pediatrics with focus on child and adolescence psychiatric disorders.
1. Introduction to psychotic disorders in adolescence
2. The epidemiology of early-onset psychosis
3. Genetics of psychotic disorders with focus on early-onset psychosis
4. Early risk factors in early-onset psychosis
5. Adolescent psychosis and transdiagnostic delimitations to other clinical syndromes
6. Cognitive functioning in early-onset psychosis
7. The immunopsychiatry of early-onset psychosis
8. Structural brain imaging in early-onset psychosis
9. Functional brain imaging in early-onset psychosis
10. Adolescence as a vulnerable period for psychosis development
11. Current treatment options in early-onset psychosis
12. Long-term development and outcome of early-onset psychosis
13. Ethical considerations and current research practices in adolescent psychosis
- No. of pages: 366
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 8, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323898324
- eBook ISBN: 9780323898775
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Ingrid Agartz
Dr. Agartz is a clinical specialist in psychiatry and professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oslo and the Department of Psychiatric Research at Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway. She conducts research in adolescent early-onset psychosis as well as in adulthood at the University of Oslo and at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. She has authored or co-authored over 420 scientific papers and has written several book chapters. Together with co-workers, she has developed large clinical cohort collections, also in EOP, and is part of large international collaborations and consortia.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Psychiatry, University of Oslo, NorwayRS
Runar E. Smelror
Dr. Smelror is a clinical psychologist with 9 years working experience with adolescent psychosis. He has a PhD in cognitive and clinical characteristics of EOP and is currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo and the Department of Psychiatric Research at Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Affiliations and expertise
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oslo, NorwayRead Adolescent Psychosis on ScienceDirect