Main description:

Adolescent Psychosis: Clinical and Scientific Perspectives presents new methodologies and novel scientific findings, with a comprehensive orientation into the genetics, phenomenology, nosology, and long-term outcome of adolescent early-onset psychosis research. This volume discusses recent epidemiological studies, along with co-morbid aspects associated with other neurodevelopmental syndromes and somatic diseases. The book also provides suggestions for future research using a translational perspective, from genes to the clinic to and relevant phenotypes, biomarkers, treatment options and etiological aspects. Topics discussed bring together expert researchers in the field to represent different perspectives and future possibilities.

Contents:

1. Introduction to psychotic disorders in adolescence

2. The epidemiology of early-onset psychosis

3. Genetics of psychotic disorders with focus on early-onset psychosis

4. Early risk factors in early-onset psychosis

5. Adolescent psychosis and transdiagnostic delimitations to other clinical syndromes

6. Cognitive functioning in early-onset psychosis

7. The immunopsychiatry of early-onset psychosis

8. Structural brain imaging in early-onset psychosis

9. Functional brain imaging in early-onset psychosis

10. Adolescence as a vulnerable period for psychosis development

11. Current treatment options in early-onset psychosis

12. Long-term development and outcome of early-onset psychosis

13. Ethical considerations and current research practices in adolescent psychosis