Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume III

Foreword. Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Insights from views across 100 years. -1. Recovery in schizophrenia: perspectives, evidence, and implications. -2. The magic shotgun: does it fit the clinician and will it point at schizophrenia? -3. Advancing neuroprotective-based treatments for schizophrenia. -4. Prevention and early intervention in at risk states for developing psychosis. -5. Early improvement and its predictive validity in first-episode schizophrenia patients. -6. Antioxidants as a treatment and prevention of tardive dyskinesia. -7. Electrophysiological imaging evaluation of schizophrenia and treatment response. -8. Coping with schizophrenia: measuring coping styles, patterns and temporal types. -9. Interventions targeting social and vocational dysfunction in individuals with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder. -10. Revisiting cognitive remediation for schizophrenia: Facing the challenges of the future. -11. Individual psychotherapy for schizophrenia: an overview of its history, recent developments and new directions. -12. An overview of cognitive behavior therapy in schizophrenic spectrum disorders. -13. Schizophrenia and medical illness: consequences of schizophrenia or its treatment? -14. The interface of cannabis misuse and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. -15. Schizophrenia and comorbid substance abuse pathophysiological and therapeutic approaches. -16. Suicidality and outcome in schizophrenia patients. -17. The relationship between religiousness/spirituality and schizophrenia: implications for treatment and community support. -18. The ethical ramifications of biomarker use for mood disorders. -Afterword. The future of the schizophrenia construct and acquisition of new knowledge.