In Search of Madness: Schizophrenia and Neuroscience
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Heinrichs, R. Walter / Heinsichs, R. Walter, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, Over the last two decades, scientific articles on schizophrenia have doubled in number, and prophecies ong>ofong> breakthrough have appeared and receded. The result is a scattered and confusing mass ong>ofong> evidence that is difficult to evaluate. How much progress has really been made? Are the neurological causes ong>ofong> madness truly in sight? This book evaluates the progress ong>ofong> schizophrenia science by summarizing what is known about how patients with the illness differ from healthy people. The tools ong>ofong> meta-ong>analysisong> are first explained and then employed to make the strength and consistency ong>ofong> these differences explicit. Beginning with the study ong>ofong> symptoms, then moving through the search for objective disease markers, findings on the cognitive ong>functionsong>, structure, physiology, chemistry, and development ong>ofong> the brain, this book is a journey into the enigma ong>ofong> madness and its science. What emerges is an illness that reveals itself most strongly in thought processes, not biology. As evidence actually becomes weaker and harder to reproduce as research moves from mind to molecule, the harvest ong>ofong> dazzling research techniques turns out to be modest or inconsistent. Schizophrenia is an anomaly at the frontier ong>ofong> mind and brain, but In Search ong>ofong> Madness points the way to its solution.