Recent Advances in Schizophrenia

I. Conceptualization of Schizophrenia.- 1.Schizophrenia: Historical Perspectives.- 2.On the Concept of Schizophrenia.- 3.Modular Disjunction in Schizophrenia: A Framework for a Pathological Psychophysiology.- 4.Meaning of Structural Changes in the Brain in Schizophrenia.- 5.Conceptual Approaches to the Study of Schizophrenia.- II. Recent Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Schizophrenia.- 6.Risk Factors in Schizophrenia: Interaction Between Genetic Liability and Environmental Factors.- 7.The Role of Molecular Genetics in Psychiatry: Unraveling the Etiology for Schizophrenia.- 8.Diagnostic Advances in Anatomical and Functional Brain Imaging in Schizophrenia.- 9.Risk Factors and Prevention in Schizophrenia.- 10.Psychosocial Interventions in Schizophrenia.- 11.Clozapine: Mechanism of Action in Relation to its Clinical Advantages.- 12.Psychopharmacologic Treatment of Schizophrenia.- III. Delivery Systems for Managing Schizophrenic Patients.- 13.Current Perspectives in the United States on the Chronically Mentally III.- 14.Policy on Chronic Mental Illness in Canada: Current Status and Future Directions.- 15.Psychiatric Reform in Italy: Implications for the Treatment of Long-Term Schizophrenic Patients.- 16.Mental Health Services and New Research in England: Implications for the Community Management of Schizophrenia.- 17.Delivery Systems for the Care of Schizophrenic Patients in Africa-Sub-Sahara.- 18. Delivery Systems and Research for Schizophrenia in China.- Author Index.