Product Description: This book presents reviews of the literature and reports of new findings from research into biological correlates of criminal behavior. The chapters are revised versions of talks given by participants in an Advanced Study Institute sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and held inCastelvecchio Pascoli in September, 1986...read more

Product Description: Multiple voices throughout the last century have preached the merits of various treatments for schizophrenia, ranging from cold baths to the currently accepted standards such as neuroleptic medication. Along with these ongoing treatments, there have been quiet commentaries, made mostly from the sidelines, suggesting the need to shift and refocus the way we think and talk about schizophrenia...read more

Product Description: Multiple voices throughout the last century have preached the merits of various treatments for schizophrenia, ranging from cold baths to the currently accepted standards such as neuroleptic medication. Along with these ongoing treatments, there have been quiet commentaries, made mostly from the sidelines, suggesting the need to shift and refocus the way we think and talk about schizophrenia...read more

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Product Description: Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute held in September 1993 in Italy. Papers examine fetal development and brain abnormalities, childhood risk factors for adult schizophrenia, and findings on fetal viral infection and antibody exposure and links to adult schizophrenia...read more

Product Description: In light of the finding that an exposure to an influenza during the second trimester of fetal development increases the risk of adult schizophrenia, researchers in schizophrenia and in brain development present 11 studies of the developing brain and its neurochemical aspects; pathological indicant...read more

Product Description: This volume was planned in order to review the neurodevelopmental processes and mechanisms that may be involved in the aetiology and expression of schizophrenia. It re-examines much basic information on human brain growth and how that growth may best be protected.

Product Description: In this century, social factors have dominated theories of antisocial behaviour to the near-exclusion of other explanatory variables in the study of criminology. Criminologists are now coming to realise that fully understanding the causes of criminality requires consideration of both social and biological variables and that their models must take into account the interaction of the two...read more

Product Description: Gives all the principle research methods and reviews major research programs of longitudinal research in the United States. Volume 1 focuses on the study of cohorts formed at birth or in childhood years.

Product Description: This volume is the product of a course on longitudinal prospective re­ search arranged by the three editors in Arhus, Denmark, in 1978. The course was supported by the Nordisk Kulturfond for young researchers from the Nordic countries, who had planned or had simply involved themselves in longitudinal prospective research projects of various kinds...read more