Juvenile-Onset Schizophrenia
Subtitle: Assessment, Neurobiology, and Treatment
Contributors: Robert L. Findling (Editor); S. Charles Schulz (Editor)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: April 4, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780801880186
Subjects: Paediatric medicine; Psychiatry; Psychoses in adolescence; Mental Illness; Psychology; Schizophrenia in children; Medical; Schizophrenia in adolescence; Psychoses in children; Developmental - Adolescent; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Neuroscience; Schizophrenia
First sentence: Whether the result of genetically programmed changes in the central nervous system (CNS), puberty, increased exposure to mind-altering drugs (including alcohol), factors as yet undiscovered, or all of these, the increased incidence of psychotic disorders in midadolescence is well known (Remschmidt et al. 1994).