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Schizophrenia in children and adolescents
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Schizophrenia in children and adolescents. Edited by helmut remschmidt (Pp 924, £39.95). Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000. ISBN 0 521 79428 5.
There are few psychiatric conditions as devastating as childhood schizophrenia. Case descriptions became available soon after schizophrenia was first recognised as an entity but a childhood onset is fortunately rare. Early samples probably included children with autistic spectrum disorders as these were only recognised in the 1940s. In spite of shared deficits there are important …