Defining Psychopathology in the 21st Century
American Psychiatric Association Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-58562-063-0 (ISBN)
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Among today's astounding research discoveries, perhaps the most fascinating is the mapping of the human genome and its implications for a vastly improved understanding of how genes affect our physiology and behavior. With that understanding comes a critical need to establish a diagnostic taxonomy for psychiatric illness that is more precise but still clinically relevant.
This volume responds to that need. It highlights the shortcomings of current categorical diagnoses, such as those used in DSM-IV, for future research needs in behavioral disorders in general and psychiatric genetics in particular.
With a chapter by each distinguished neuroscientist who presented at the 2000 American Psychopathological Association (APPA) meeting, this volume is divided into four sections: Definitional Tensions, which discusses the difficulties with the current categorical diagnostic system; Imaging Psychopathology, which presents research demonstrating how imaging technologies can tremendously improve our illness definitions; Longitudinal Studies, which details what we can learn from epidemiological and other longitudinal studies; and Exploring Alternatives, which discusses the application of dimensional classification systems in genetics research in psychopathology, with a fascinating chapter on using new methodologies for treating subsyndromal or pre-schizophrenia, a taxonomic condition defined herein as "schizotaxia."
This unique collection represents a significant step in developing approaches to classification that will lead to more accurate diagnoses and treatments for patients and a broader range of taxonomic options for researchers. As such, it will also be welcomed by psychiatric clinicians and educators, as well as by anyone interested in genetics and how it governs human behavior.
John E. Helzer, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the Health Behavior Research Center of the University of Vermont School of Medicine in Burlington, Vermont. James J. Hudziak, M.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine (Division of Human and Medical Genetics) and Director of Child Psychiatry at the University of Vermont School of Medicine in Burlington, Vermont.
Contributors
Preface
Part I: Definitional Tensions
Chapter 1. Five Criteria for an Improved Taxonomy of Mental Disorders
Chapter 2. Defining Clinically Significant Psychopathology With Epidemiologic Data
Chapter 3. Why Requiring Clinical Significance Does Not Solve Epidemiology's and DSM's Validity Problem: Response to Regier and Narrow
Chapter 4. Psychometric Perspectives on Comorbidity
Part II: Imaging Psychopathology
Chapter 5. Toward a Neuroanatomical Understanding of Psychiatric Illness: The Role of Functional Imaging
Chapter 6. Neuroimaging Studies of Mood Disorders
Chapter 7. Genetic Neuroimaging: Helping to Define Phenotypes in Affective Disorders
Part III: Longitudinal Studies
Chapter 8. Psychopathology and the Life Course
Chapter 9. Detecting Longitudinal Patterns of Alcohol Use
Chapter 10. Empirically Based Assessment and Taxonomy Across the Life Span
Chapter 11. ADHD Comorbidity Findings From the MTA Study: New Diagnostic Subtypes and Their Optimal Treatments
Part IV: Exploring Alternatives
Chapter 12. Implications of Genetic Epidemiology for Classification
Chapter 13. Importance of Phenotype Definition in Genetic Studies of Child Psychopathology
Chapter 14. Defining Genetically Meaningful Classes of Psychopathology
Chapter 15. Schizotaxia and the Prevention of Schizophrenia
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.4.2002 |
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Zusatzinfo | No |
Verlagsort | VA |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 463 g |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie |
ISBN-10 | 1-58562-063-7 / 1585620637 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-58562-063-0 / 9781585620630 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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