Risk and Protective Factors in Schizophrenia: Towards a Conceptual Model of the Disease Process

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The present volume contains the lectures of the symposium on Risk and Protective Factors in Schizophrenia - towards a conceptual Model of the Disease Process , which was held at the International Science Forum of the University of Heidelberg on October, 2001. The topics of the program were Genetic risk factors and gene environment interaction , Psychotic and negative symptoms in the general population as risk-factors , Etiological risk factors in embryonal life, childhood and adolescence , Prepsychotic prodromi and stage models of the development of psychosis , Brain development, structural and functional morphology of the early course , Urban versus rural life, migration and social chains as causal risk factors? , Psychological and neurobiological (estrogen, erythropoietine) protective factors . The book covers a wide scope of recent research and knowledge about schizophrenia.