Advances in Schizophrenia Research 2009.pdf

Advances in Schizophrenia Research

2009

Wagner F. Gattaz

Geraldo Busatto

Editors

Advances in Schizophrenia

Research

2009

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Editors

Wagner F. Gattaz

Department and Institute of Psychiatry

Faculty of Medicine

University São Paulo

05403-903 São Paulo-SP

Brazil

gattaz@usp.br

Geraldo Busatto

Department and Institute of Psychiatry

Faculty of Medicine

University São Paulo

05403-903 São Paulo-SP

Brazil

geraldo.busatto@hcnet.usp.br

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Preface

Schizophrenia remains a mighty challenge to psychiatry, with its causes and under-

lying brain mechanisms yet to be fully uncovered. Currently available treatments are

neither universally effective nor without unwanted effects. These aspects, together

with the high prevalence of schizophrenia, its often debilitating nature and associ-

ated family/social burden, make this mental disorder one of the most complex public

health issues of our times.

The Advances in Schizophrenia series intends to become a key reference in this

ﬁeld. Our aim is to provide comprehensive and up-to-date reviews of the wide range

of research studies carried out around to world with the purposes of solving the

schizophrenia puzzle and providing clues to new forms of treatment and prevention

for this disorder.

A special feature of the series is its truly broad scope, virtually encompassing

all ﬁelds of schizophrenia research: epidemiology and risk factors; psychopathol-

ogy; diagnostic boundaries; cognition; outcome and prognosis; pathophysiology;

genetics; pharmacological and psychological forms of treatment and rehabilitation;

community care; and stigma.

The ﬁrst volume of the series is related to the 6th Symposium on the Search for

the Causes of Schizophrenia, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in February 2009. We have

been organizing the Search-Meetings since 1986. During these 22 years we have

managed to keep the main characteristic of this series: the “Search” remains a non-

commercial meeting, with a limited number of invited guest speakers and partici-

pants. A group of prominent scientists from different centers around the world were

invited to provide scholar reviews on the state of the art in each of the above areas,

as well as their view on the perspectives for the future. The content table of this

book reﬂects the program of the 6th edition of this meeting and is consistent with

our aim to comprehensively cover all relevant areas of research into schizophrenia.

Of the ﬁve previous meetings we organized with our friend Heinz Haefner, three

took place in Heidelberg and the last two in Brazil. These meetings resulted in ﬁve

books, edited by Heinz and one of us (WFG) and published by Springer. In this

6th Search, for personal reasons, Heinz could not participate in the preparations

of the meeting and in the edition of this book. Nevertheless, we thought that this

would be an excellent occasion to dedicate this 6th Search and the ﬁrst volume of

this Advances in Schizophrenia series to Heinz Haefner. We feel that Heinz Haefner

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