Schizotypy and Schizophrenia (eBook)

Mark F. Lenzenweger, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Adjunct Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. Dr. Lenzenweger held a professorial post at Cornell University for 11 years, where he was a member of the tenured faculty. He moved on to Harvard University, where he chaired the Quantitative Methods Committee in the Department of Psychology, as well as helped to relaunch the clinical science program there. He returned to upstate New York to accept an interarea professorship in clinical science, cognitive science, and behavioral neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and was promoted to Distinguished Professor in 2007. Dr. Lenzenweger has been recognized as a Distinguished Investigator by NARSAD: The Brain and Behavior Research Fund and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society and the American Psychopathological Association. Widely published, he maintains active research programs in three areas: schizotypy and schizophrenia, longitudinal study of personality disorders, and quantitative methods. He also continues to see patients in long-term psychotherapy in private practice.

I. Schizotypes and Schizotypy1. “Welcome to the Machine”II. The Experimental Psychopathologist’s Toolbox2. Reliability, Validity, and How We Collect Data3. Practical Tools and Pragmatic Issues4. Analytic Heuristics, Caveats, and Soapbox MomentsIII. Schizotypy Viewed from the Laboratory5. Recognizing the Schizotype6. Begin with a Model7. Genetics, Genomics, Phenotypes, and Endophenotypes: The Challenge of Complex Disease8. Probing Critical Neurocognitive Endophenotypes: Attentional Dysfunction, Executive and Working Memory Functioning, Eye-Movement Dysfunction, and Thought Disorder9. Motion and Touch: Simpler May Be Better10. The Schizotype through Time…11. Now, Just What about This “Type” Business in “Schizotype”?IV. Reactions, Reflections, and Projections12. Thoughts on Impediments, Imaging, Environment, Intervention, and InnovationAppendix A. Summary Rating Sheet from Manual for Use with Checklist of Schizotypic SignsAppendix B. Selected Quantitative Measures of SchizotypyAppendix C. Getting Started: A Provisional Reading List