Volume 40 · Number 3
MARCH 2010

The Debate Continues, but are We Ready to Make the Leap?

By Jan Fawcett, MD

This issue of Psychiatric Annals continues with more articles examining the similarities and differences between the diagnostic categories of schizophrenia versus psychotic bipolar disorder, or between the psychotic mood disorders and schizophrenia. Guest editor C. Ray Lake, MD, PhD, has again delivered a series of articles by highly respected clinician-research investigators, as well as an article describing his own take.

 

Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder: No Dichotomy, a Continuum, or One Disease? Part 2
C. Ray Lake, MD, PhD

Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder: No Dichotomy, a Continuum, or One Disease?
C. Ray Lake, MD, PhD

A 25-year-old Man with a History of Schizophrenia
Jasen Christensen, DO

CE article Why the Kraepelinian Dichotomy and Schizophrenia have not Followed the Neuroses
C. Ray Lake, MD, PhD

CE article Toward a Valid Classification of Psychosis: Overcoming the Schizophrenia-Bipolar Dichotomy
Lorenzo Mazzarini; Eduard Vieta

CE article Evoked Response Potential Endophenotypes Link Schizophrenia and Psychotic Bipolar Disorder
Nathaniel G. Hurwitz, MD; Daniel J. Aires, MD, JD

CE article Tackling the Kraepelinian Dichotomy: A Neuroimaging Review
Alan R. Prossin, MD; Melvin G. McInnis, MD; Amit Anand, MD; Mary M. Heitzeg, MD; Jon-Kar Zubieta, MD

Is the Overlap of Neurobiological and Psychopathological Parameters Large Enough to Give up the Dichotomic Classification?
Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Möller

The Conundrum of Schizoaffective Disorder: A Review of the Literature
Frederick K. Goodwin, MD; S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD

 

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