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In Search of madness: schizophrenia and neuroscience
- Author:
- HEINRICHS R. Walter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 357p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Presents an integrated synthesis of twenty years nueroscientific evidence on schizophrenia. The author takes his reader on a journey into the enigma of the illness: the study of symptoms, the search for objective disease markers, the findings on the cognitive functions, structure, physiology, chemistry and development of the brain. What emerges is an illness that reveals itself more strongly in thought processes than in biology. As research moves from mind to molecule evidence actually becomes harder to produce. What at first sight seems to be a dazzling harvest of research techniques turns out to yield modest or even inconsistent results. Contents include: illness and evidence; the nature of symptoms; the mark of madness; executive incompetence; the biology of meaning; neurochemical tempest; the strangeness of children; flights of theory; the end of the beginning.