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Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

Last update: 7 July 2008,
by Maureen Bell



LIST OF MENTAL HEALTH TOPICS

Aboriginal Mental Health

Administration and Policy in Mental Health

Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Phobias

Art Collections and Art Therapy

Books By or About People with a Mental Illness

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Consumers and Carers

Crisis Intervention and Emergency Services

Depression

Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Dual Diagnosis

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Evidence-Based Mental Health

Forensic Psychiatry

Geriatrics and Geriatric Psychiatry

Guidelines
- to assist with clinical treatment issues

Health Promotion (Mental Health)

Housing for People with a Mental Illness
- includes problems of homelessness

Legislation

Mental Health (General mental health sites)

Personality Disorders

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Primary Care - Mental Health

Psychiatric Drug Information

Psychiatric Nursing

PubMed (a free version of Medline) - and how to use it

Rating Scales

Rehabilitation and Recovery

Rural Mental Health

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

Statistics

Suicide and Self-Injurious Behaviour

Theorists and Theories

Violence, Aggression and Dangerous Behaviour

Lists of books and journal articles relating to schizophrenia can be found on my bibliographies and reading lists page. Material on early intervention is listed here

For practice guidelines related to schizophrenia and its treatment click here.

Abstracts of reviews from the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group are on my evidence-based medicine page

Links are divided into Australian and overseas lists.

Library members have online access to specialist journals in this area.

Schizophrenia Bulletin
Schizophrenia Research


Australian Links

Comprehensive Care for People with Schizophrenia Living in the Community
Medical Journal of Australia 178 (9) Supplement, 5 May 2003

All In The Mind - 17 November 2002 - Disease of the Split Soul: Schizophrenia in Japan
All In The Mind - 1 April 2006 - Fragmented minds, part 1
All In The Mind - 8 April 2006 - Fragmented minds, part 2
All In The Mind - 22 July 2006 - Hearing Voices - the invisible intruders
Transcripts and audios from All in the Mind, a series on ABC Radio National. Other programs can be found here

People Living with Psychotic Illness: an Australian Study 1997-98
By Assen Jablensky, Helen Herrman, David Castle, Oye Gureje, Vera Morgan, and Alisa Korten. Fourth in a series of reports from the National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing funded through the National Mental Health Strategy .

Schizophrenia
Resources from HealthInsite, which is an Australian Government initiative, funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. It aims to improve the health of Australians by providing easy access to quality information about human health.

Schizophrenia: Costs: An Analysis of the Burden of Schizophrenia and Related Suicide in Australia
An Access Economics Report for SANE Australia, 2002.

Overseas Links

bmj.com Topic collections : Schizophrenia and disorders with psychotic features

Brain Explorer - Focus on Brain Disorders - Schizophrenia
From the LundBeck Institute, information on how schizophrenia affects the brain.

Center for Collaborative Genetic Studies on Mental Disorders - Schizophrenia
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has funded a Human Genetics Initiative. The goal of this Initiative is to establish a national resource of clinical data and biomaterials that are collected from individuals with Alzheimer disease, autism, schizophrenia, or bipolar disorder, in order to aid researchers in understanding the genetic bases of these disorders. This site is the schizophrenia section.

DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR Diagnostic Criteria for Schizophrenia
This is a terminology Clinical Capsule from BehaveNet.

eMedicine - Schizoaffective Disorder
An article by Guy E Brannon.

eMedicine - Schizophreniform Disorder
An article by Ravinder Bhalla.

Evaluation of Early Intervention for Psychosis Services in New Zealand: What works?
Researched and authored by Mark Turner. With contributions from Sue Nightingale, Roger Mulder, and Ali Maginness. Health Research Council of New Zealand, July 2002.

Gender Differences in the Epidemiology of Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia
Piccinelli, Marco. Gender differences in the epidemiology of affective disorders and schizophrenia / Marco Piccinelli and Francesca Gomez-Homen. Geneva : Division of Mental Health and Prevention of Substance Abuse, 1997.

MEDLINEplus: Schizophrenia
A collection of resources on this topic from MEDLINEplus, the National Library of Medicine's information service for the public.

Mental Health Care | Schizophrenia and psychosis | Cognitive remediation
From the Institute of Psychiatry and South London and Maudsley Trust.

THE MERCK MANUAL, Section 15, Chapter 193, Schizophrenia And Related Disorders
From the online version of the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy.

NeLMH schizophrenic disorders
This website is part of the Mental Health Specialist Library of the NeLH (National Electronic Library for Health) in the U.K.

Open the Doors
From the World Psychiatric Association Programme to Fight Stigma due to Schizophrenia, this site contains both professional and consumer information.

Prevention and Early Intervention Program for Psychoses (PEPP)
Located in London, Ontario Canada, PEPP is based at London Health Sciences Centre and affiliated with the University of Western Ontario. The program serves the city of London and Middlesex County, a predominantly urban catchment area of approximately 390,000.

Psychiatric Times / Schizophrenia
A collection of full text articles from Psychiatric Times

Recognizing and Understanding Schizophrenia in Young Adults
International awareness packet, from the World Federation for Mental Health, to assist those who work with young adults in college and communities better understand and assist those who experience the onset of schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia
A collection of resources from Internet Mental Health.

Schizophrenia (Royal College of Psychiatrists)
Mental health information from the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK. Described as "Readable and well-researched information for the public."

Schizophrenia: A Handbook For Families
Published by Health Canada in Co-operation with the Schizophrenia Society of Canada.

Schizophrenia - an independent review article in Psychiatry on-Line
This article is by Dr Ben Green, Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool.

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders Home Page
A page of resources for healthcare professionals, from CME (Continuing Medical Education Inc.)

Schizophrenia and Public Health
Barbato, Angelo. Schizophrenia and public health. Geneva, Division of Mental Health and Prevention of Substance Abuse, 1998.

WHO | Schizophrenia
World Health Organization publications on schizophrenia