Schizo-Obsessive Disorder

Description

This is the first book to address the clinical and neurobiological interface between schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). There is growing evidence that obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia are prevalent, persistent and characterized by a distinct pattern of familial inheritance, neurocognitive deficits and brain activation. This text provides guidelines for differential diagnosis of schizophrenic patients with obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and patients with primary OCD alongside poor insight, psychotic features or schizotypal personality. Written by a leading expert in the coexistence of obsessive-compulsive and schizophrenic phenomena, Schizo-Obsessive Disorder uses numerous case studies to present diagnostic guidelines and to describe a recommended treatment algorithm, demystifying this complex disorder and aiding its effective management. The book is essential reading for psychiatrists, neurologists and the wider range of multidisciplinary mental health practitioners.

Features

• Proposes diagnostic criteria and guidelines for differential diagnosis
• Includes a recommended treatment algorithm for effective management of patients
• Describes 50 clinical vignettes, enabling learning from real clinical experience

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
1. Schizophrenia and OCD: comparative characteristics
2. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: conceptual history
3. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: epidemiological and clinical aspects
4. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: psychopathological characteristics
5. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: prodrome
6. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in schizophrenia: across life span
7. OCD-spectrum disorders in schizophrenia
8. Schizotypal OCD
9. OCD with poor insight
10. Neurobiology of schizo-obsessive disorder
11. Treatment of schizophrenia with obsessive-compulsive symptoms
12. Antipsychotic drug-induced obsessive-compulsive symptoms
13. Conclusions and future directions
Index.