Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 The paradigma of overlapping affective and schizophrenic spectra: schizoaffective conditions
- 2 The overlapping of the spectra: overlapping genes and genetic models
- 3 The continuum of psychosis and its genetic basis
- 4 Functional psychoses: molecular-genetic evidence for a continuum
- 5 State- and trait-related deficits in sustained attention in bipolar disorder: are there any overlaps with schizophrenia?
- 6 The concept of schizoaffective disorder: utility versus validity and reliability – a transcultural perspective
- 7 Phenomenological approaches to the schizoaffective spectrum
- 8 Clinical course of schizoaffective disorders
- 9 Depressive syndromes in schizophrenia
- 10 The overlapping of the spectra: brief and acute psychoses
- 11 Overlapping of the spectra: physical comorbidity between schizophrenia and affective disorders
- 12 The overlapping of the spectra suicide
- 13 Biological treatment of schizoaffective disorders
- 14 Psychological therapies and schizoaffective disorders
- Epilogue: The interface of affective and schizophrenic disorders: a cross between two spectra?
- Index
Epilogue: The interface of affective and schizophrenic disorders: a cross between two spectra?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 The paradigma of overlapping affective and schizophrenic spectra: schizoaffective conditions
- 2 The overlapping of the spectra: overlapping genes and genetic models
- 3 The continuum of psychosis and its genetic basis
- 4 Functional psychoses: molecular-genetic evidence for a continuum
- 5 State- and trait-related deficits in sustained attention in bipolar disorder: are there any overlaps with schizophrenia?
- 6 The concept of schizoaffective disorder: utility versus validity and reliability – a transcultural perspective
- 7 Phenomenological approaches to the schizoaffective spectrum
- 8 Clinical course of schizoaffective disorders
- 9 Depressive syndromes in schizophrenia
- 10 The overlapping of the spectra: brief and acute psychoses
- 11 Overlapping of the spectra: physical comorbidity between schizophrenia and affective disorders
- 12 The overlapping of the spectra suicide
- 13 Biological treatment of schizoaffective disorders
- 14 Psychological therapies and schizoaffective disorders
- Epilogue: The interface of affective and schizophrenic disorders: a cross between two spectra?
- Index
Summary
Introduction
This monograph, based on the Proceedings of the November 2004 Frankfurt Conference, has greatly enriched our current knowledge of the interface between affective and schizophrenic disorders. As conference organizers and editors, Professor Marneros and I brought together some of the most incisive minds working on this interface along many lines of clinical and basic investigation. These lines of evidence have revealed both continuities and discontinuities between the affective and schizophrenic spectra. Perhaps what is “in-between” represents a cross of the underlying dimensions of the two “voluminous” spectra, or superposition of some of the contributory factors of one on the other. This epilogue will not give rise to firm conclusions. Rather, in examining several main lines of research, it will reformulate them with an eye towards the future of this field.
Historical context
In the first century ad, Aretaeus of Cappadocia (1856 translation) described the intimate relationship between melancholia and mania, thereby indicating a relationship between what we call today unipolar and bipolar disorders. Angst and Marneros (2001) contend that Aretaeus actually went further than that in his depiction of mania, spilling over into the realm of what some today may consider schizophrenia.
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- The Overlap of Affective and Schizophrenic Spectra , pp. 277 - 292Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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