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A Life Course Approach to Mental Disorders examines the interplay
of social and biological factors in the production of a wide range
of mental disorders throughout life, from the peri-natal period
through to old age. The aging into adulthood of numerous birth
cohorts, especially over the past twenty years, has provided
increasing evidence that mental disorders previously perceived to
emerge in adulthood may have their origins early in life. This book
brings together, in a single resource, the research in life course
epidemiology of mental disorders, forging a consensus on the
current science and pointing the way forward for the field.
Assembling researchers across disparate disciplines including
epidemiology, developmental psychopathology, psychiatric genetics,
sociology, developmental cognitive neuroscience, and epigenetics
the book reviews the methods and synthesizes existing knowledge
about the life course epidemiology of mental disorders in
populations. It also presents discussions of the mechanisms that
drive the production of mental disorders over the life course
including emerging areas of research in the field. A Life Course
Approach to Mental Disorders brings together the state-of-the-art
science of life course epidemiology to inform training, research,
practice and policy with regard to mental disorders. The first
comprehensive articulation of a life course perspective in the
area, it will be a key resource for academics, researchers and
students.
An international team of leading researchers and clinicians here
provide a comprehensive, epidemiological overview of this
multi-faceted and still perplexing disorder, and address some of
the key questions it raises. How important in the genetic
contribution to schizophrenia? Do pregnancy and birth complications
increase the risk for schizophrenia? Is the incidence of
schizophrenia changing? Why is the rate higher among immigrants and
in those born in cities? Controversial issues such as the validity
of discrete or dimensional classifications of schizophrenia and the
continuum between psychosis and 'normality' are explored in depth,
and separate chapters are devoted to topics of particular relevance
to schizophrenia such as suicide, violence and substance abuse.
Finally, new prospects for treatment and prevention are considered.
Drawing together the findings from social, genetic, developmental
and classical epidemiology of schizophrenia, this text will prove
an invaluable resource for clinicians and researchers.
An international team of leading researchers and clinicians provides the first comprehensive, epidemiological overview of this multi-faceted and still-perplexing disorder. Controversial issues such as the validity of discrete or dimensional classifications of schizophrenia and the continuum between psychosis and 'normality' are explored in depth. Separate chapters are devoted to topics of particular relevance to schizophrenia such as suicide, violence and substance abuse. Finally, new prospects for treatment and prevention are considered.
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