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Adolescent Psychosis

Clinical and Scientific Perspectives

  • 1st Edition - February 8, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Ingrid Agartz, Runar E. Smelror
  • Language: English

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Description

Adolescent Psychosis: Clinical and Scientific Perspectives presents new methodologies and novel scientific findings, with a comprehensive orientation into the genetics, phenomenology, nosology, and long-term outcome of adolescent early-onset psychosis research. This volume discusses recent epidemiological studies, along with co-morbid aspects associated with other neurodevelopmental syndromes and somatic diseases. The book also provides suggestions for future research using a translational perspective, from genes to the clinic to and relevant phenotypes, biomarkers, treatment options and etiological aspects. Topics discussed bring together expert researchers in the field to represent different perspectives and future possibilities.

Key features

  • Provides a comprehensive overview that integrates the latest research
  • Features unique chapters on brain imaging, cognition and immune function in patients
  • Focuses on potential risk factors, underlying genetics, family history, and epidemiology
  • Summarizes or advises treatment opportunities and long-term outcomes
  • Discusses relevance to similar psychiatric conditions

Readership

Clinical psychologists and psychiatrists in research and practice, students of psychiatry, psychology and pediatrics with focus on child and adolescence psychiatric disorders.

Table of contents

1. Introduction to psychotic disorders in adolescence

2. The epidemiology of early-onset psychosis

3. Genetics of psychotic disorders with focus on early-onset psychosis

4. Early risk factors in early-onset psychosis

5. Adolescent psychosis and transdiagnostic delimitations to other clinical syndromes

6. Cognitive functioning in early-onset psychosis

7. The immunopsychiatry of early-onset psychosis

8. Structural brain imaging in early-onset psychosis

9. Functional brain imaging in early-onset psychosis

10. Adolescence as a vulnerable period for psychosis development

11. Current treatment options in early-onset psychosis

12. Long-term development and outcome of early-onset psychosis

13. Ethical considerations and current research practices in adolescent psychosis

Review quotes

*4 stars* "...provides a comprehensive overview of psychotic disorders that develop in children and adolescents before the age of 18, known as early-onset psychosis. With the recent concerning increase in the incidence of psychotic disorders between 13 and 18 years of age, this timely and needed textbook appropriately provides a comprehensive understanding of early onset psychotic disorders based on current research findings. Anyone who engages in the care of children and adolescents would benefit from this book, especially given the variety of early onset psychotic disorders manifestations. Primary care providers, therapists, and psychiatrists who engage in treatment modalities will find this book particularly helpful." —©Doody’s Review Service, 2024, Aaron John Plattner, MD (Network180)

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 21, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Ingrid Agartz

Dr. Agartz is a clinical specialist in psychiatry and professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oslo and the Department of Psychiatric Research at Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway. She conducts research in adolescent early-onset psychosis as well as in adulthood at the University of Oslo and at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. She has authored or co-authored over 420 scientific papers and has written several book chapters. Together with co-workers, she has developed large clinical cohort collections, also in EOP, and is part of large international collaborations and consortia.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Norway

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Runar E. Smelror

Dr. Smelror is a clinical psychologist with 9 years working experience with adolescent psychosis. He has a PhD in cognitive and clinical characteristics of EOP and is currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo and the Department of Psychiatric Research at Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Affiliations and expertise
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oslo, Norway

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