Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Introduction: is psychosis a neurobiological syndrome? -- Diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia -- Diagnostic criteria for psychotic disorder due to a general medical condition -- Diagnostic criteria for substance-induced psychotic disorder -- Examining the hypothesis -- REFERENCES -- Appendix -- Part II Primary Psychotic Disorders -- 2 Schizophrenia -- Summary of findings -- Introduction -- Epidemiology -- Age of onset -- Presentation -- Course and progression -- Suspected neuropathology and neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic factors -- Treatment -- Early phase of illness -- Transition to stabilization phase -- Maintenance phase -- REFERENCES -- 3 Schizophrenia among children and adolescents -- Summary of findings -- Introduction -- Epidemiology -- Prevalence of schizophrenia among youth -- Gender distribution -- Comorbidity -- Ethnicity -- Age of onset -- Presentation -- First rank symptoms -- Diagnostic methods -- Neuropsychological deficits -- Psychosis not otherwise specified -- Course and progression -- Suspected neuropathology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic factors -- Other risk factors -- Obstetrical complication -- Treatment -- Level and cost of care -- Psychopharmacological treatment -- Psychosocial treatments -- University of Hawaii child and adolescent thought disorders program -- Assessment -- Treatment -- Family services -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- 4 Late-life schizophrenia -- Summary of findings -- Epidemiology -- Age of onset -- Presentation -- Course and progression -- Suspected neuropathology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic factors -- Other risk factors -- Treatment -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- 5 Schizoaffective disorder -- Summary of findings.

Introduction -- Historical background -- Epidemiology -- Incidence and prevalence -- Age of onset -- Gender -- Clinical presentation -- Course and progression -- Suspected neuropathology -- Neuropsychological findings -- Neuroimaging -- Electrophysiology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Neuroendocrinology -- Neurochemistry -- Genetic factors -- Treatment -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- 6 Schizophreniform disorder and brief psychotic disorder: the acute and transient psychoses -- Summary of findings -- Introduction -- Epidemiology -- Prevalence and incidence -- Developing countries -- Gender difference -- Age at onset -- Presentation -- Course and progression -- Suspected neuropathology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic factors -- Other risk factors -- Treatment -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- 7 Delusional disorder -- Summary of findings -- Introduction -- Epidemiology -- Prevalence -- Gender differences and other factors -- Age of onset -- Presentation -- Associated clinical features -- Positive symptoms -- Negative symptoms -- Hallucinations -- Emotional and behavioral symptoms -- Neuropsychological findings -- Course and progression -- Latency -- Initial presentation -- Presentation of psychotic symptoms -- Prodrome -- Suspected neuropathology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic factors -- Other risk factors -- Treatment -- Psychosocial treatments -- Somatic treatment -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- Part III Mood Disorders -- 8 Psychosis in bipolar disorder -- Summary of findings -- Introduction -- Epidemiology -- Age of onset -- Presentation -- Course and progression -- Suspected neuropathology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic factors -- Other risk factors -- Treatment -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- 9 Psychosis in major depression -- Summary of findings -- Introduction.

Epidemiology -- Age of onset -- Presentation -- Course and progression -- Suspected neuropathology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic factors -- Other risk factors -- Treatment -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- Part IV Neurodevelopmental and Genetic Disorders -- 10 Psychosis with intellectual disabilities -- Summary of findings -- Introduction -- Epidemiology -- Specific problems of diagnosis -- Problems with inconsistent criteria -- Limitations of standard classification systems -- Prevalence and incidence -- Reasons for increased prevalence rates -- Other epidemiological factors -- Age of onset -- Presentation -- Positive and negative symptoms -- Emotional and behavioral symptoms -- Neuropsychological findings -- Course and progression -- Suspected neuropathology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic factors -- Other risk factors -- Epilepsy -- Obstetric complications -- Sensory impairments -- Treatment -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- 11 Velo-cardio-facial syndrome -- Summary of findings -- Introduction -- Epidemiology -- Age of onset and presentation -- Course and progression -- Suspected neuropathology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic factors -- Other risk factors -- Treatment -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- 12 Psychosis in autism -- Summary of findings -- Introduction -- Epidemiology -- Age of onset -- Presentation -- Course and progression -- Suspected neuropathology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic factors -- Other risk factors -- Treatment -- Acknowledgements -- REFERENCES -- Part V Central Nervous System Disorders -- 13 Psychotic disorder due to traumatic brain injury -- Summary of findings -- Introduction -- Epidemiology -- Age of onset -- Presentation -- Course and progression -- Suspected neuropathology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic factors.

Other risk factors -- Treatment -- Conclusions -- TBI can be the primary cause of psychosis -- TBI can contribute to the development of a psychosis -- TBI may be unrelated to the development of a psychosis -- Explanations for latencies in onset of PDDTBI -- REFERENCES -- 14 Schizophrenia-like psychosis and epilepsy -- Summary of findings -- Classification -- Ictal psychosis -- Epidemiology -- Age of onset -- Presentation -- Neurophysiological disturbance -- Genetics -- Treatment -- Postictal psychosis (PIP) -- Epidemiology -- Presentation -- Neurophysiology and neurochemistry -- Treatment and prognosis -- Brief interictal psychosis (BIP) -- Presentation -- Neurophysiology and the concept of "forced normalization" -- Epidemiology -- Treatment -- Chronic interictal psychosis -- Epidemiology -- Clinical features -- Risk factors of chronic SLP with epilepsy -- Is greater risk of psychosis particular to temporal lobe epilepsy? -- Laterality of epileptic focus? -- Genetics -- Neuroimaging studies -- Neuropathological studies -- Possible pathophysiological mechanisms for psychosis in epilepsy -- Composite model -- Treatment -- Acknowledgements -- REFERENCES -- 15 Psychosis following cerebrovascular accident -- Summary of findings -- Introduction -- Epidemiology -- Presentation -- Post-CVA psychosis with disorientation for place and/or reduplicative paramnesia -- Post-CVA psychosis with capgras' syndrome -- Post-CVA psychosis with fregoli's syndrome -- Cases of post-CVA psychosis with various psychotic, mood, and cognitive symptoms -- Course and progression -- Suspected neuropathology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic factors -- Other risk factors -- Treatment -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- 16 Psychosis in patients with brain tumors -- Summary of findings -- Introduction -- Epidemiology -- Brain tumors in psychiatric patients.

Psychiatric symptoms in brain tumor patients -- Age of onset and presentation -- Course and progression -- Suspected neuropathology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic and other risk factors -- Treatment -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- 17 Psychosis secondary to infections -- Introduction -- Definition and diagnostic criteria -- Viral infections -- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -- Summary of findings -- Epidemiology -- Age of onset -- Presentation -- Course and prognosis -- Suspected neuropathology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic factors -- Other risk factors -- Treatment -- Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) -- Summary of findings -- Epidemiology -- Age of onset -- Presentation -- Course and prognosis -- Suspected neuropathology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic factors -- Other risk factors -- Treatment -- Bacterial infections -- Lyme disease -- Summary of findings -- Epidemiology -- Age of onset -- Presentation -- Course and prognosis -- Suspected neuropathology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic factors -- Other risk factors -- Treatment -- Syphilis -- Summary of findings -- Epidemiology -- Age of onset -- Presentation -- Course and prognosis -- Suspected neuropathology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic factors -- Other risk factors -- Treatment -- Other infections -- Parasitic -- Fungal -- Prion -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- 18 Psychosis secondary to inflammatory and demyelinating disease -- Multiple sclerosis -- Epidemiology -- Age of onset -- Presentation -- Course and progression -- Neuropathology -- Suspected neurochemical abnormalities -- Genetic factors -- Other risk factors -- Treatment -- System lupus erythematosus -- Epidemiology -- Age of onset -- Presentation -- Course and progression -- Suspected neuropathology.

Suspected neurochemical abnormalities.