Journal article
Toward defining schizophrenia as a more useful clinical concept
Current psychiatry reports, Vol.10(4), pp.344-351
08/2008
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-008-0055-9
PMID: 18627674
Abstract
Delineating schizophrenia remains elusive despite considerable interest and study for more than a century. During this time, a variety of terms and defining features have been ascribed to the construct. The predominant contemporary construct, for which substantial limitations persist, has changed little in the past 30 years. With the approaching arrival of the DSM-V, interest in the nosology of schizophrenia has rebounded. Recent publications have focused principally on the following: integrating dimensional approaches to diagnosis, subtypes of schizophrenia, endophenotypes, and identifying those at early risk as part of a staging process. Some have even suggested replacing the term. Although an etiopathic diagnosis remains out of reach, contemporary research is marching down several distinct paths toward defining schizophrenia as a construct of greater clinical utility.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Toward defining schizophrenia as a more useful clinical concept
- Creators
- Jess G Fiedorowicz - Iowa Consortium for Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 500 Newton Road, 1-400 MEB, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. michael-flaum@uiowa.eduEric A EppingMichael Flaum
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Current psychiatry reports, Vol.10(4), pp.344-351
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11920-008-0055-9
- PMID
- 18627674
- ISSN
- 1523-3812
- eISSN
- 1535-1645
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2008
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Epidemiology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984003987702771
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