Quality of Life Impairment in Schizophrenia, Mood and Anxiety Disorders

Contributors; Foreword; Part One Key Methodological Issues 1. The Distress/Protection Vulnerability Model of the quality of life impairment syndrome: current evidence and new directions for research, Ritsner MS; 2. Role of dopamine in pleasure, reward and subjective responses to drugs: the neuropsychopharmacology of quality of life in schizophrenia, Voruganti L.N.P., and Awad A.G.; 3. Neuroendocrine functions, mood and quality of life, Mazza, M., and Mazza, S; 4. In the Eyes of the Beholder: Neuronal mediators for the effect of emotional experience on quality of life, Hendler T, Admon R., and Papo D.; 5. Cross-cultural quality of life research in mental health: conceptual approaches, assessment strategies, empirical results and potential impact, Bullinger M, Schmidt S, and Naber D.; 6. Measuring the value of health-related quality of life, Hawthorne G; 7. Comparison of instruments for measuring quality of life impairment syndrome in severe mental disorders: Q-LES-Q versus QLS andLQOLP, Ritsner MS; 8. Integrative bottom-up approach to quality of life measurement, Pukrop R and Bechdolf A; Part Two Quality of Life Impairment Syndrome in Severe Mental Disorders 9. Health related quality of life in subjects at risk for a first episode of psychosis, Bechdolf, A., Veith, V, Pukrop, R., Klosterkötter J; 10. Quality of life impairment syndrome in schizophrenia, Ritsner MS and Gibel A; 11.Insight and quality of life in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: An examination of their paradoxical relationship, Lysaker PH, and Louanne D; 12. Quality of life and major depression: current findings and future perspectives, Berlim MT, and Fleck MPA; 13. Quality of life impairment in bipolar disorder, Michalak EE, Murray G, Young AH and Lam RW; 14. Quality of life impairment in anxiety disorders, Koury MA and Rapaport MH; 15. Quality of life in in obsessive-compulsive disorder, Bobes J, García-Portilla MP, Bascaran M-T, Saiz P-A, Bobes-Bascaran M-T,Bousoño M; Part Three Treatment and

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