Specialty: Psychiatry,
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer,
Publication Year: 2010,
Cover: Wallchart,
Dimensions: 115x830x115mm

Understanding Schizophrenia chart provides a visual and textual overview and is an ideal tool to help practitioners explain the condition to patients and families.Defines schizophreniadiscusses causes of schizophrenia and other psychosiscompares MRIs of unaffected and affected brainsdiscusses the stages and natural progression of the disease - illustrates gray matter deficit at onset of illness and after 5 years - illustrates a healthy neuron and a abnormally pruned neurondiscusses the 4 broad categories of symptoms - positive, negative, mood and cognitive - diagrams course of the illness and symptoms - shows medial view of the brain with dopamine pathways - shows lateral view of the brain Also discusses treatment and management. Made in USAAvailable in the following versions: 20" x 26" heavy weight paper laminated with grommets at top corners ISBN 9780781786447 20" x 26" heavy weight paper ISBN 9780781786423show more