Download or read book Risk and Protective Factors in Schizophrenia written by Heinz Häfner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-11-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contains the lectures of the symposium on 'Risk and Protective Factors in Schizophrenia - towards a conceptual Model of the Disease Process', which was held at the International Science Forum of the University of Heidelberg on October, 2001. The topics of the program were 'Genetic risk factors and gene environment interaction', 'Psychotic and negative symptoms in the general population as risk-factors', 'Etiological risk factors in embryonal life, childhood and adolescence', 'Prepsychotic prodromi and stage models of the development of psychosis', 'Brain development, structural and functional morphology of the early course', 'Urban versus rural life, migration and social chains as causal risk factors?', 'Psychological and neurobiological (estrogen, erythropoietine) protective factors'. The book covers a wide scope of recent research and knowledge about schizophrenia. TOC:Introduction.- Genetic and Population-related Risk Factors.- Developmental Disorders of the Brain.- Environmental Risk Factors.- Indicators of Schizophrenia in Childhood and Adolescence.- Psychopathological Predictors of the Course of Schizophrenia.- Perspectives of Neuroprotective Interventions.- Psychoprotective factors.- Developments and Perspectives.