Epidemiology of Schizophrenia

William W. Eaton, Chuan Yu Chen, Evelyn J. Bromet

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Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationTextbook in Psychiatric Epidemiology
Subtitle of host publicationThird Edition
PublisherJohn Wiley and Sons
Pages263-287
Number of pages25
ISBN (Print)9780470694671
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 19 2011

Keywords

  • Biological risk factors and genes
  • Clinical cohort studies-diagnoses derived from semi-structured examinations, as Present State Examination (PSE) and Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN)
  • Clinical diagnoses, basis of epidemiological studies-and case registries
  • Demographic correlates-age and sex, force of morbidity of schizophrenia peaks in young adulthood
  • Epidemiology of schizophrenia
  • Psychotic disorders-schizophrenia, being debilitating and persistent
  • Research on schizophrenia-integrating suggestions from key studies and reviews
  • Results, linking schizophrenia to autoimmune disease-clinical and laboratory study of autoimmune processes in schizophrenia
  • Social risk factors, and ethnicity-ethnic status, shared history with others
  • WHO followup of schizophrenia-after 5 years

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine

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