Schizotypal Personality

✍ Scribed by Adrian Raine (editor), Todd Lencz (editor), Sarnoff A. Mednick (editor)

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 526
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is devoted to examining schizotypal personality and provides a comprehensive overview of our current knowledge. It includes reviews of genetics, neurodevelopment, assessment, psychophysiology, neuropsychology, and brain imaging. Central themes are the exploration of categorical and dimensional approaches to the understanding of schizotypal disorder and its relationship to schizophrenia, by some of the world's leading researchers. Valuable introductory and concluding chapters set in context the sometimes divergent opinions and findings presented by the book's contributors, and there are reviews of methodological issues and assessment schedules for the benefit of researchers in the field. In setting out to answer, from phenomenological, psychological and neurobiological perspectives, the fundamental question of what schizotypal disorder is and to develop coherent etiological models, this book will serve as an authoritative resource for clinicians and researchers interested in this major personality disorder.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 18
Part I - Introduction......Page 20
1 - Conceptual and theoretical issues in schizotypal personality research......Page 22
Part II - Genetics and neurodevelopment......Page 36
2 - Family--genetic research and schizotypal personality......Page 38
3 - Schizotypal personality disorder characteristics associated with second-trimester disturbance of neural development......Page 62
4 - Neurodevelopmental processes in schizophrenia and schizotypal personality disorder......Page 75
Part III - Assessment......Page 96
5 - Scales for the measurement of schizotypy......Page 98
6 - Schizotypal status as a developmental stage in studies of risk for schizophrenia......Page 126
Part IV - Categorical versus dimensional approaches......Page 151
7 - Tracking the taxon: on the latent structure and base rate of schizotypy......Page 153
8 - Detection of a latent taxon of individuals at risk for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders......Page 186
9 - Fully and quasi-dimensional constructions of schizotypy......Page 210
Part V - Psychophysiology and psychopharmacology......Page 234
10 - Schizotypal personality and skin conductance orienting......Page 236
11 - Attention, startle eye-blink modification, and psychosis proneness......Page 267
12 - Brain structure/function and the dopamine system in schizotypal personality disorder......Page 289
Part VI - Neuropsychology......Page 304
13 - Neuropsychological abnormalities associated with schizotypal personality......Page 306
14 - Syndromes of schizotypy: patterns of cognitive asymmetry, arousal, and gender......Page 345
15 - Working memory deficits, antisaccades, and thought disorder in relation to perceptual aberration......Page 369
Part VII - Brain imaging......Page 399
16 - Brain morphology in schizotypal personality as assessed by magnetic resonance imaging......Page 401
17 - The potential of physiological neuroimaging for the study of schizotypy: experiences from applications to schizophrenia......Page 422
Part VIII - Conclusion......Page 443
18 - Schizotypal personality: synthesis and future directions......Page 445
Part IX - Appendix......Page 477
Semistructured interviews for the measurement of schizotypal personality......Page 479
Name Index......Page 497
Subject Index......Page 509