Plasticity and Morphology of the Central Nervous System

Section 1: Schizophrenia: The Impact of Neuroimaging Techniques.- 1. Structural and developmental abnormalities in schizophrenia assessed with MRI.- 2. Brain morphology in schizophrenia by magnetic resonance imaging.- 3. Brain density patterns in schizophrenia.- 4. Lateral ventricular size and clinical features in schizophrenia.- 5. Hippocampal metabolic function in schizophrenia.- Section 2: Affective Disorders: The Impact of Neuroimaging Techniques.- 6. CT and MRI findings in affective disorders: clinical and research implications.- 7. Neuromorphological correlates of mood disorders: focus on cerebral ventricular enlargement.- 8. Brain imaging with positron emission tomography in affective illness.- 9. The impact of starvation on brain morphology and function in eating disorders.- Section 3: The Impact of Neurophysiological Studies in Psychiatry.- 10. Neurometric subtyping of depressive disorders.- 11. Lateralization patterns of verbal stimuli processing in schizophrenia patients.- 12. EEG patterns in schizophrenia: a familial study.- 13. Some aspects of psychophysiological studies in psychiatry.- Section 4: The Impact of Genetic Studies in Psychiatry.- 14. Genetic marker studies in schizophrenia.- 15. Amish study of genetics of affective disorders.- 16. Affective disorders segregation structures according to clinical and pharmacological features.- 17. Psychiatric disorders in families of phenylketonuric patients.- Section 5: Plasticity and Vulnerability of the CNS in Psychiatric Disorders.- 18. Neuronal plasticity in the central nervous system: a pharmacological approach.- 19. A neurodevelopmental perspective on some epiphenomena of schizophrenia.- 20. Clinical investigations of plasma homovanillic acid concentrations.- 21. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and psychoses.- 22. Early separation events and noradrenergic status during major depression.- 23. Vulnerability and plasticity of monoamine neurotransmitter systems in affective and personality disorders.- 24. Concluding remarks: plasticity and morphology of the central nervous system in schizophrenia and affective disorders.