Cognition in Schizophrenia: Impairments, Importance, and Treatment Strategies

"This is a useful book for anyone with a serious interest in the study or treatment of schizophrenia. The writing is clearand several authors manage to treat this often-arid material in a lively and engaging way." The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

"This is an important and informative book. As the phenomena of cognitive impairment is increasingly being recognized as a central component of schizophrenic illness, a complex research literature involving many disciplines is accruing at a great rate. This book successfully gives a critical overview of much of this work by addressing the nature of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia, the importance and correlates of such impairments, and the treatment and remediation of cognitive deficits in the disease. ... In summation, this is a useful book for anyone with a serious interest in the study or treatment of schizophrenia. The writing is clear, most chapters end with succinct summaries, and several authors manage to treat this often arid material in a lively and engaging way."--Donald Young, Ph.D., Ed.D., Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, and Ellen Rumm, M.D., Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto

Philip D Harvey PhD Department of Psychiatry Box 1229 Mt Sinai School of Medicine New York NY 10029 USA Tel: 001 212 824 7140 Fax: 001 212 869 3945 Email: pdharvey@compuserve.com Dr Tonmoy Sharma Section of Cognitive Psychopharmacology Institute of Psychiatry De Crespigny Park Denmark Hill
London SE5 8AF Tel: +44 171 919 2678 Fax: +44 171 740 5208 Email: t.sharma@iop.kcl.ac.uk