Cognitive and Behavioral Dysfunction in Schizophrenia

ISBN-13: 9780128200056 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 220 str.

Ahmed A. Moustafa

Recenzje

"This book presents a myriad of topics related to the variety of difficulties this population experiences due to cognitive and behavioral problems. It is a useful book to help clinicians better understand the wide variety of problems individuals with schizophrenia experience beyond symptoms of psychosis." --© Doody's Review Service, 2021,Michael Easton, MD, reviewer, expert opinion

Spis treści

Part I: Behavioral impairment in schizophrenia and related disorders 1. Masking Impairments in Schizophrenia and Schizotypal Personality Disorder 2. Working Memory Impairment in Schizophrenia and Schizotypal Personality Disorder 3. Deductive Reasoning Abilities in Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: A Systematic Review 4. A Review on inductive Reasoning Abilities in Schizophrenia and Related Disorders

  Part II: Recent topics in schizophrenia and related disorders 5. Religious Delusions in Psychotic Patients: Prevalence, Possible Origin and Effects 6. Urbanicity and familial liability interact and influence auditory verbal hallucinations in first-episode schizophrenia patients 7. Sexual Dysfunctions in Male Schizophrenia Patients 8. Case studies of the treatment of Schizophrenia patients 9. Prevalence of Depression in Schizophrenia and Related Disorders 10. Sleep and psychosis

O autorze

Dr. Ahmed Moustafa is a Professor of Psychology and Computational Modeling at School of Psychology, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Prior to moving to Bond University, Ahmed was an associate professor in Psychology and Neuroscience at Marcs Institute for Brain, Behavior, and Development & School of Psychology, Western Sydney University. Ahmed is trained in computer science, psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. His early training took place at Cairo University in mathematics and computer science. Before joining Western Sydney University as a lab director, Ahmed spent 11 years in America working on several psychology and neuroscience projects. Ahmed conducts research on computational and neuropsychological studies of addiction, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, PTSD, depression, Alzheimer's disease. He has published over 240 papers in high-ranking journals including Science, PNAS, Journal of Neuroscience, Brain, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Nature (Parkinson's disease), Neuron, among others. Ahmed has obtained grant funding from Australia, USA, Qatar, UAE, Turkey, and other countries. Ahmed has recently published ten books: (1) Computational models of brain and behavior; (2) Social Cognition in Psychosis, (3) computational Neuroscience Models of the Basal Ganglia, (4) Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Aspects of Drug Addiction; (5) The Nature of Depression: An updated review; (6) Big data in psychiatry and neurology; (7) Alzheimer's Disease: Understanding Biomarkers, Big Data, and Therapy. Elsevier; (8) Cognitive and Behavioral Dysfunction in Schizophrenia; (9) Female Pioneers from Ancient Egypt and the Middle East; and (10) Mental health effects of COVID-19. In the last 10 years, Ahmed has published collaboratively with 71 colleagues, has more than 510 co-authors, from 35 institutions in 14 countries. Ahmed is now Editor-in-Chief of Discover Psychology, a new journal by Springer Nature.