Atlas of Schizophrenia

89 Pages·2002·4.565 MB·English

by  Martin Stefan, Mike Travis, Robin Murray

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VISUAL MEDICINE SERIES
An Atlas of
SCHIZOPHRENIA
Martin Stefan
Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Mike Travis
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
and
Robin M. Murray
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
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An atlas of schizophrenia / [edited by] Martin Stefan,Mike Travis and Robin M.Murray.
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1.Schizophrenia -- Atlases.I.Stefan,Martin.II.Travis,Mike.III.Murray,Robin MD,
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1.Schizophrenia
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Contents
Preface
Foreword
1 Clinical features
2 Epidemiology and risk factors
3 Pathogenesis
4 Neurochemistry and pharmacotherapy
5 Psychosocial treatment

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Preface
There have been major changes in attitudes attempt to put together a visual overview of this
towards schizophrenia in recent years.In clinical fascinating and challenging territory.
practice, more effective pharmacological and We have included many of the more familiar
psychological treatments for schizophrenia have landmarks and monuments,but also some infor-
helped regenerate a sense of therapeutic opti- mative images of the most interesting new
mism. In research, progress in a range of basic developments. Inevitably, because of the vast
disciplines has opened up new avenues which volume of new developments, our compilation
promise to help unravel the abnormalities of has been somewhat selective. However, we
brain development, structure and function hope this Atlas reflects our sense that a cohesive
which are at the core of the disorder.These have clinical and theoretical understanding of this
been complimented by advances from epidemi- complex disorder is now within reach,and that
ology which remind us that schizophrenia is not we can now bring hope and better care to
just a brain disorder,and that social and psycho- sufferers.
logical factors can have a profound impact on its Martin Stefan,Mike Travis
onset and outcome. Research in schizophrenia and Robin M.Murray
has never been more exciting.This Atlas is our November 2001
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Foreword
Schizophrenia is a puzzle.Emil Kraepelin consi- rather more information than is contained in
dered that his life's work had resulted merely in standard educational materials.
progress in understanding the psychoses, not a An atlas is probably not the most obvious
solution. Gottesman and Shields regarded the format for a book on schizophrenia but the
causes of schizophrenia as being an epigenetic authors have succeeded in producing a useful
puzzle, an analogy that continues to serve us and interesting one.Diagrams,tables and figures
well.Research in this area seems to produce ever give contemporary views an immediate impact,
more pieces,rather than fitting them together. with modern techniques of investigation,such as
More importantly, schizophrenia puzzles neuroimaging, being particularly well suited to
patients who have the syndrome, their families this format.These are balanced by the paintings
and, as often as not, the clinicians who try to from the Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and
help them.Martin Stefan,Mike Travis and Robin Museum that entertain and fascinate alongside
Murray are experts in this field,and have produ- the factual information:they give an impression
ced an excellent and highly readable overview of of the human as well as scientific and psychiatric
the clinical features of the disorder,the epidemi- aspects of schizophrenia. Thus, the book
ological context,possible causes,and the current provides a useful map for all.
status of drug treatment. Clinicians working in
all aspects of services for people with schizo-
phrenia will find this an accessible and clear Peter Jones
reference. Many may consider recommending Professor of Psychiatry
the book to some patients and carers who want University of Cambridge
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1
CHAPTER
Clinical features
HISTORY AND CLASSIFICATION comprehensive descriptions date from the
beginning of the 18th century (Figures 1.2 and
Schizophrenia is arguably the most severe of the 1.3)1. The modern concept of schizophrenia was
psychiatric disorders. It carries a lifetime risk of first formalized by the German psychiatrist Emil
around 0.5–1%, and its early onset and tendency Kraepelin (Figure 1.4)2,3 at the turn of the 20th
to chronicity mean that its prevalence is relatively century. Kraepelin, who drew on contemporary
high. Disability results particularly from negative accounts of syndromes such as catatonia and
symptoms and cognitive deficits, features that can hebephrenia, was the first to distinguish between
have a greater impact on long-term functioning
than the more dramatic delusions and halluci-
nations which often characterize relapses. The
social and economic impact of the illness is
enormous, and its impact on sufferers and their
families can be devastating.
Although descriptions of people who may
have had schizophrenia-like illnesses can be
found throughout history (Figure 1.1) the first
Figure 1.1 Sketch to Illustrate the Passions: Agony – Raving
Madness, by Richard Dadd (1854). In this painting, Richard
Dadd (1817–1886) alludes to a pre-Kraeplinian distinction
between ‘raving madness’ and ‘melancholic madness’.
Dadd himself was a patient at the Bethlem (Bedlam)
Hospital, England’s oldest mental hospital, and at
Broadmoor, the hospital for the criminally insane. A
Victorian painter best known for his fairy paintings, Dadd
developed his illness at around the age of 25, when he
become suspicious and preoccupied with religion, and
developed delusions relating to the Egyptian god Assyris,
beliefs that thoughts and commands which he had to obey
were put into his head, and delusions that he was
persecuted by the devil. At the age of 27, in response to
these beliefs, he attacked and killed his father. He spent the
rest of his life in institutional psychiatric care. Figure
reproduced with kind permission of the Bethlem Royal
Hospital Archives and Museum, Beckenham, Kent, UK
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Figure 1.2 Frontispiece from Illustrations of Madness (1810), by John Haslam1, which provides a vivid description of psychosis
in an individual patient early in the industrial revolution. James Tilley Matthews was admitted to the Bethlem Hospital in 1797,
after writing a threatening letter to a senior official in the British Admiralty. Haslam, who was Matthews’doctor at the Bethlem,
wrote his book as a rebuttal of claims made in court that Matthews was not insane. Matthews believed that a ‘gang of villains,
profoundly skilled in pneumatic chemistry’were assailing him: ‘while one of these villains is sucking out the brain of the
person assailed, to extract his existing sentiments, another of the gang will force into his mind a train of ideas very different
from the real subject of his thoughts’. He experienced many other unpleasant experiences, including ‘sudden death squeezing,
stomach skinning, apoplexy making with the nutmeg grater, lengthening of the brain, thought making and laugh making’.
Figure reproduced with kind permission of the Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum, Beckenham, Kent, UK
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Figure 1.3 Air-loom, by James Tilley Matthews, circa 1810. This plate is included in Haslam’s book1. It is Matthews’own
‘diagram or plan of the cellar or place where the assassins rendezvous and work, showing their own and their apparatuses’
relative positions, as it has at all times appeared to me by the sympathetic perception’. As well as the ‘air-loom’, Matthews
indicates the sources of various abnormal experiences: the voices of the King, Bill, the Middle Man, the Glove Woman, Augusta,
Charlotte, St Archy, and assorted visitors, who are ‘not half so distinct as when they advance to the Loom Table, especially the
Middle Position’, together with a ‘door into a back room where I have not the least perception of them beyond the said door’.
Figure reproduced with kind permission of the Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum, Beckenham, Kent, UK
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Figure 1.4 Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926). The fifth edition of Figure 1.5 Eugen Bleuler (1857–1939). In 1911, Eugen
Kraepelin’s Textbook of Psychiatry2, published in 1896, Bleuler published his monograph entitled Dementia
articulated a distinction between acquired and Praecox, or the Group of Schizophrenias, and argued that
constitutional pathology in mental illness. The sixth dementia praecox was not a single disease, was not
edition, published in 1899, distinguished between inevitably associated with intellectual decline, and had as
dementia praecox and manic depressive insanity its fundamental basis disorders of affectivity, ambivalence,
autism, attention and will. Other symptoms such as
delusions, hallucinations, abnormal behavior and
catatonia were conceptualized as secondary ‘accessory
symptoms’
the two major poles of severe mental illness. He The Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler (Figure
described one group of patients in whom the 1.5) coined the term ‘schizophrenia’ in 1911 and
clinical picture was dominated by disordered this rapidly displaced dementia praecox5. Unlike
mood and who followed a cyclical pattern of Kraepelin, who was strongly influenced by the
relapse and relative remission; he termed this successes of clinical pathology in the search for
‘manic depressive insanity’. Others had a causative agents in diseases such as syphilis and
deteriorating illness characterized by florid onset, tuberculosis, Bleuler thought of schizophrenia in
often in adolescence, with a prolonged course psychological rather than neuropathological
marked by profound social and functional terms. For Bleuler, the florid but highly variable
disability. He called the latter ‘dementia praecox’, symptoms of psychosis, such as delusions and
and saw it as ‘a single morbid process’, endogenous hallucinations, were secondary, ‘accessory’
rather than acquired, starting in youth and with phenomena.At the core of the illness, he believed,
dementia as a common outcome.This concept has was a more generalized psychological deficit,
since been enormously influential in guiding our characterised by a ‘loosening of associations’ in the
perception of the disorder, even though Kraepelin form of language, by deficits in volition and
himself came to recognize many of its limitations: attention, and by incongruity of affect,
for example, the disease was not always confined ambivalence and autism.
to younger people, the progression to dementia Although intellectually compelling as a model
was not inevitable and in some individuals a of schizophrenia, Bleuler’s core symptoms were
recovery would be seen4. difficult to define reliably. In particular, the limits
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