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Psychiatry and Biological Factors

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  • © 1991

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  1. Edouard Kurstak

    1. Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Edouard Kurstak
      Pages 1-5

  3. Mental Pathology and Virogene Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. The Virogene Hypothesis of Psychosis

      • Timothy J. Crow
      Pages 9-21

    3. A Virus-Associated Immunopathological Theory of Schizophrenia

      • Royce W. Waltrip II, Donald R. Carrigan, Robert W. Buchanan, William T. Carpenter Jr.
      Pages 23-52

    4. Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 DNA in Human Brain Tissue

      • J. Rajčáni, M. Murányiová, M. Kúdelová, J. Pogády, V. Mucha, P. Babál
      Pages 53-66

    5. Genetic Sequences of Influenza Virus in Children with Congenital CNS Pathology

      • Y. Y. Tentsov, V. A. Zuev, A. M. Shevchenko, A. A. Rzhaninova, N. B. Nefedova, N. G. Ignatova
      Pages 67-76

    6. Prognostic Markers of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Associated Neurologic Symptoms in Patients with AIDS

      • Suraiya Rasheed
      Pages 77-88

  4. Virological and Immunological Study of Schizophrenia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Prenatal Viral Infection as an Etiological Agent in Adult Schizophrenia

      • Christopher E. Barr, Sarnoff A. Mednick
      Pages 91-107

    3. An Influenza Epidemic and the Seasonality of Schizophrenic Births

      • E. Fuller Torrey, Ann E. Bowler, Robert Rawlings
      Pages 109-116

    4. Virological and Immunological Study of Schizophrenic Patients in Relation to CT Scan Abnormality

      • Carlo Lorenzo Cazzullo, Emilio Sacchetti, Antonio Vita, Susanna Brambilla, Roberta Mancuso, Carlo Ezio Vaccari et al.
      Pages 117-125

    5. Viral Persistence and Immune Impairment in Schizophrenia

      • O. A. Vasiljeva, V. Y. Semke, T. P. Vetlugina, A. I. Zhankov, M. M. Garayev, I. U. Karas et al.
      Pages 127-141

    6. Molecular Genetic Studies of Human Cytomegalovirus in Schizophrenia

      • Hans W. Moises, Rüdiger Rüger, Gavin P. Reynolds, Bernhard Fleckenstein
      Pages 143-148

    7. New Experimental Approaches Examining a Viral Etiology of Schizophrenia

      • Anita Feenstra, Darrell G. Kirch, Mark A. Coggiano, Richard Jed Wyatt
      Pages 149-158

    8. Lymphocyte Subsets in Schizophrenic Patients

      • Cinzia Masserini, Pasquale Ferrante, Antonio Vita, Carlo Lorenzo Cazzullo
      Pages 159-167

    9. Immunological Studies in Schizophrenia

      • G. Kolyaskina, T. Sekirina, T. Voronkova, T. Micheeva, M. Shchurin, A. Ivanushkin et al.
      Pages 169-180

    10. Diagnostic Criteria for Selection of Schizophrenic Patients in the Study of Biological Markers

      • J. Pogády, J. Rajčáni, D. Martišová, J. Krajčík
      Pages 181-184

  5. Immunomodulators and Psychiatric Disorders

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. Interferon in Schizophrenia

      • Daniel Becker, Eli Kritschmann, Susy Floru, Yaffa Shlomo-David, Tamar Gotlieb-Stematsky
      Pages 187-190
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About this book

The main purpose of the volume Psychiatry and Biological Factors is to provide a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the current research linked essentially to virus infections, immunity functions, and mental diseases. In recent years substantial advances have been registered in the physiopathol­ ogy of mental and neurological disorders. As a result, partial control of certain psychoses, anxiety syndromes, epilepsy, and Parkinson's disease is now possible. However, despite progress in biomedical research, numerous mental and neuro­ logical disorders afflict up to 15% of all individuals and little is known about the causes, prevention, and treatment of these diseases. Several epidemiological investigations demonstrated a high prevalence of functional psychoses and organic mental disorders, and recent data show that biological components appear as a major etiologic factor. In this respect it could be stressed that viral and immunologic hypotheses should be investigated seriously and systematically in relation to the mechanisms of several mental and neurologi­ cal diseases. Neuropsychiatric consequences of AIDS related to human immunodeficiency virus infection are now well documented. A variety of behavioral. symptoms and psychiatric syndromes with paranoid features are frequent concomitants of AIDS.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

    Edouard Kurstak

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Psychiatry and Biological Factors

  • Editors: Edouard Kurstak

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5811-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Publishing Corporation 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-5813-8Published: 01 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-5811-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 311

  • Topics: Psychiatry, Immunology, Infectious Diseases

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