Schizophrenia

Kevin Silber is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Derby, UK. Educated at Manchester University in Physiology and Psychology, he then went onto a lecturing career that now spans 29 years. During that time he has been a lecturer, a programme leader and a head of department, and he has also examined A level psychology. During this time his focus has been on learning and teaching and, especially the transition from secondary to tertiary education. He has authored two previous biological psychology texts and was the series editor for the Modular Psychology series.

• 1. What is Schizophrenia?2. Inheriting Schizophrenia3. Neurotransmitter Explanations4. Brain Correlates of chizophrenia5. Alternative Biological and Evolutionary Explanations6. Social and Cognitive Explanations7. Psychodynamic Explanations and Family Functioning8. Biological Treatments9. Psychosocial Approaches to Treatment.