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Quality of Life Impairment in Schizophrenia, Mood and Anxiety Disorders

New Perspectives on Research and Treatment

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Editors:
  1. Michael S. Ritsner

    1. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
      Director, Acute Department, Sha’ar Menashe, Mental Health Center, Israel
      Associate Editor, Quality of Life Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. A. George Awad

    1. Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Medical Science University of Toronto Chief of Psychiatry, Humber River Regional Hospital, Toronto
      Ontario President, The International Society of CNS, Clinical Trials and Methodology, Canada

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  • The Distress/Protection Vulnerability model of HRQL impairment
  • New insights from neuroscience
  • Integrative approach to quality of life measurement
  • Comparative data regarding severe mental disorders
  • Treatment and Rehabilitation Issues

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Key Methodological Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Distress/Protection Vulnerability Model of Quality of Life Impairment Syndrome

      • Michael S. Ritsner
      Pages 3-19

    3. Role of Dopamine in Pleasure, Reward and Subjective Responses to Drugs

      • Lakshmi N.P. Voruganti, A. George Awad
      Pages 21-31

    4. Neuroendocrine functions, mood and quality of life

      • Marianna Mazza, Salvatore Mazza
      Pages 33-56

    5. In the mind of the Beholder Neuronal mediators for the effect of emotional experience on~quality of life

      • Talma Hendler, Roee Admon, David Papo
      Pages 57-66

    6. Cross-cultural Quality of Life Research in Mental Health

      • Monika Bullinger, Silke Schmidt, Dieter Naber
      Pages 67-98

    7. Measuring the value of health-related quality of life

      • Graeme Hawthorne
      Pages 99-132

    8. Comparison of instruments for measuring the quality of life impairment syndrome in severe mental disorders

      • Michael S. Ritsner
      Pages 133-142

    9. Integrative bottom-up approach to HRQOL measurement

      • Ralf Pukrop, Andreas Bechdolf
      Pages 143-155

  3. Quality of Life Impairment Syndrome in Severe Mental Disorders

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Health Related Quality of Life in Subjects at Risk for a First Episode Of Psychosis

      • Andreas Bechdolf, Verena Veith, Ralf Pukrop, Joachim Klosterkötter
      Pages 159-171

    3. Quality of life impairment syndrome in schizophrenia

      • Michael S. Ritsner, Anatoly Gibel
      Pages 173-226

    4. Insight and quality of life in chizophrenia spectrum disorders

      • Paul H. Lysaker, Shira Louria
      Pages 227-240

    5. Quality of Life and Major Depression

      • Marcelo T. Berlim, Marcelo P.A. Fleck
      Pages 241-252

    6. Quality of life impairment in bipolar disorder

      • Erin E. Michalak, Greg Murray, Allan H. Young, Raymond W. Lam
      Pages 253-274

    7. Quality of Life Impairment in Anxiety Disorders

      • Margaret A. Koury, Mark Hyman Rapaport
      Pages 275-291

    8. Quality of Life in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

      • Julio Bobes, M.-P. GarcÍa-Portilla, Maria-Teresa BascarÁn, Pilar-Alejandra SÁiz, Maria-Teresa Bobes-BascarÁn, Manuel BousoÑo
      Pages 293-303

  4. Treatment and Rehabilitation Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 305-305
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    2. Antipsychotic Medications, Schizophrenia and the Issue of Quality of Life

      • A. George Awad, Lakshmi N.P. Voruganti
      Pages 307-319
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About this book

Over the past few decades health-related quality of life (HRQL) has emerged as the new image of medicine viewed from a psychosocial perspective. The concept of Quality of Life has attracted a good deal of interest, not only from a clinical perspective but also from psychosocial, health economics as well as cultural aspects. More recently, the neurobiological brain substrates that modulate many aspects of subjective experiences, which is relevant to quality of life such as affect, mood, cognition, pleasure, reward responses as well as feeling of wellbeing and satisfaction has been explored and elucidated. Such increased interest in HRQL is highlighted by the large number of recent publications. Over the past 10 years at least 350 papers were published describing aspects of HRQL in the psychiatric and mental field. Among them 78% dealt with HRQL in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders, 21% with major depression, 14% with anxiety disorders and 4% with bipolar disorder. It is gratifying to witness the enhanced interest and popularity in HRQL research and publications, yet the field continues to suffer from conceptual inconsistencies as well as a good deal of methodological limitations. It is worrisome that we still do not have a clear understanding of the concept itself as applied to mental health and illness as well as the complex array of its determinants. Similarly there is a lag in the application of quality of life data in improving clinical practice.

Reviews

From the reviews:

"Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is certainly a construct with legs. … The editors are very successful in covering a broad scope of information, allowing readers … to fill in the gaps of their understanding about HRQOL concepts and methodology. This may be the greatest contribution of this book … . There are a number of wonderful chapters that many researchers will find quite useful. … I’m glad to have this resource in my library and will recommend it to my colleagues." (Charles E. Drebing, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 53 (13), 2008)

"The best cumulative work on the topic of health-related quality of life (HRQL) with regard to severe mental health diagnoses. … This collaborative text adds to the knowledge about HRQL and encourages the reader to consider quality of life as a measurement of success. … Technically, the book is well written and edited as well as attractively printed. … it will be useful for all researchers of quality-of-life issues and particularly so for specialists in behavioral health." (Mark H. Fleisher, JAMA, Vol. 300 (4), July, 2008)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

    Michael S. Ritsner

  • Director, Acute Department, Sha’ar Menashe, Mental Health Center, Israel

    Michael S. Ritsner

  • Associate Editor, Quality of Life Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Michael S. Ritsner

  • Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Medical Science University of Toronto Chief of Psychiatry, Humber River Regional Hospital, Toronto

    A. George Awad

  • Ontario President, The International Society of CNS, Clinical Trials and Methodology, Canada

    A. George Awad

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Quality of Life Impairment in Schizophrenia, Mood and Anxiety Disorders

  • Book Subtitle: New Perspectives on Research and Treatment

  • Editors: Michael S. Ritsner, A. George Awad

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5779-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5777-9Published: 25 June 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7443-0Published: 19 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5779-3Published: 28 June 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 388

  • Topics: Neurology, Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Rehabilitation, Social Work, Neurosciences

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