Novel Antischizophrenia Treatments

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Geyer, Mark A. (Editor), Gross, Gerhard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, 213
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmacy.; Pharmacology.; Psychopharmacology.; Biological psychology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Biological Psychology.
• Physical Description: X, 458 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783642257582
• ISSN: 0171-2004 ;

This volume tries to put current therapy - achievements, shortcomings, remaining medical needs - and emerging new targets into the context of increasing knowledge regarding the genetic and neurodevelopmental contributions to the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Some of the chapters also deal with respective experimental and clinical methodology, biomarkers, and translational aspects of drug development. The volume concentrates on reviewing the ongoing research attempting to identify novel treatments for the cognitive deficits and negative symptoms of schizophrenia, which are not treated adequately by current antipsychotic medications.