Brain Evolution, Language and Psychopathology in Schizophrenia

✍ Scribed by Paolo Brambilla (editor), Andrea Marini (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 259
• Series: Explorations in Mental Health
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive review of new developments in the study of language processing and related neural networks in schizophrenia by addressing the complex link between psychopathology, language and evolution at different levels of analysis. Psychopathological symptoms in schizophrenia are mainly characterized by thought and language disorders, which are strictly intertwined. In particular, language is the distinctive dimension of human beings and is ontologically related to brain development. Although normal at the levels of segmental phonology and morphological organization, the speech of patients suffering from schizophrenia is often characterized by flattened intonation and word-finding difficulties. Furthermore, research suggests that the superior temporal gyrus and specific prefrontal areas which support language in humans are altered in people with schizophrenia. Brambilla and Marini bring together international contributors to explore the link between brain evolution and the psychopathological features of schizophrenia, with a focus on language and its neural underpinnings. Divided into three sections the book covers: • brain evolution and language phylogenesis • brain abnormalities in schizophrenia • psychopathology and schizophrenia. This theoretical approach will appeal to professionals including clinical psychologists, cognitive neuroscientists, neuropsychiatrists, neuropsychologists, neurolinguists, and researchers considering the links between brain evolution, language and psychopathology in schizophrenia.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of illustrations
About the editors
List of contributors
Introduction
Part I: Brain evolution and language phylogenesis
1 Genes and the evolution of language • Philip Lieberman
2 Navigation, discourse and the origin of language • Francesco Ferretti
3 Phylogenetic aspects of world- and self-representation in humans • Franco Fabbro and Massimo Bergamasco
Part II: Brain abnormalities in schizophrenia
4 Auditory cortex asymmetry and language processing in schizophrenia • Steven A. Chance and Manuel F. Casanova
5 Disordered brain network function in adolescence: Impact on thought, language and vulnerability for schizophrenia • Vaibhav A. Diwadkar and Noa Ofen
6 Corpus callosum, inter-hemispheric communication and language disturbances in schizophrenia • Cinzia Perlini, Marcella Bellani and Paolo Brambilla
7 Structural and functional brain imaging of thought disorder • Andrew Watson and Stephen Lawrie
8 Brain structural abnormalities, social function and psychopathology in schizophrenia • Jaya Padmanabhan, Christine I. Hooker and Matcheri S. Keshavan
Part III: Psychopathology and schizophrenia
9 Thought, hallucinations and schizophrenia • Gemma Modinos and Philip McGuire
10 Neural correlates of cognitive control and language processing in schizophrenia • Katherine Scangos and Cameron S. Carter
11 Narrative language production in schizophrenia • Andrea Marini and Cinzia Perlini
12 Social premorbid adjustment and linguistic abilities in first-episode schizophrenia • Paula Suárez-Pinilla, Nicholas Chadi, Rosa Ayesa-Arriola and Benedicto Crespo-Facorro
13 Symptoms, thought disorders and cognitive remediation treatment in schizophrenia • Antonio Vita and Luca De Peri
Part IV: Conclusion
14 Concluding remarks • Paolo Brambilla and Andrea Marini
Glossary and abbreviations
Index