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Social and Cognitive Abilities in Late Childhood

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Search for the Causes of Schizophrenia

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Consideration of the social and cognitive development of pre-schizophrenic (Pre-S) children should inform and be informed by neurodevelopmental hypotheses of this disorder. These hypotheses take the view that abnormal brain development is determined genetically or occurs in utero (see Kotrla et al. 1997; Pogue-Geile 1997 for reviews). However the abnormality is manifested as schizophrenia only later in the second decade of life or later still. The delay could be explained by the accumulation of adverse experiences that peak in early adulthood, or alternatively maturational changes that trigger the abnormal neural circuits that resulted during development. Kotrla (1997) has suggested that early abnormality will lead to further abnormalities during development (i.e. a cascade process) and that these too are triggered by some critical maturational event in adulthood.

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  1. Dept. Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Herts, UK

    D. J. Done

  2. Dept. Humanities, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Herts, UK

    E. Leinonen

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  1. Department of Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, P.O. Box 3671, 05403-010, São Paul, SP, Brazil

    Wagner F. Gattaz M.D. (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

  2. University of Heidelberg, Germany

    Heinz Häfner (Prof. em. of Psychiatry, Director em., Head) (Prof. em. of Psychiatry, Director em., Head)

  3. Central Institute of Mental Health, Germany

    Heinz Häfner (Prof. em. of Psychiatry, Director em., Head) (Prof. em. of Psychiatry, Director em., Head)

  4. Schizophrenia Research Unit, P.O.Box 122 120, 68072, Mannheim, Germany

    Heinz Häfner (Prof. em. of Psychiatry, Director em., Head) (Prof. em. of Psychiatry, Director em., Head)

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Done, D.J., Leinonen, E. (1999). Social and Cognitive Abilities in Late Childhood. In: Gattaz, W.F., Häfner, H. (eds) Search for the Causes of Schizophrenia. Steinkopff. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-47076-9_9

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