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Review
. 2015 Nov;69(11):661-73.
doi: 10.1111/pcn.12322. Epub 2015 Jul 1.

Schizophrenia in 2020: Trends in diagnosis and therapy

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Schizophrenia in 2020: Trends in diagnosis and therapy

Wolfgang Gaebel et al. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2015 Nov.
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Abstract

Schizophrenia research is providing an increasing number of studies and important insights into the condition's etiopathogenesis based on genetic, neuropsychological and cranial neuroimaging studies. However, research progress has not yet led to the incorporation of such findings into the revised classification criteria of mental disorders or everyday clinical practice. By 2020, schizophrenia will most likely still be a clinically defined primary psychotic disorder. While there is some hope that treatment will be improved with new antipsychotic drugs, drugs addressing negative symptoms, more refined psychotherapy approaches and the introduction of new treatment modalities like transcranial magnetic stimulation, an additional hope is to improve early detection and prevention. As the results of new research into the etiopathogenesis of schizophrenia are promising to improve diagnosis, classification and therapy in the future, a picture of complex brain dysfunction is currently emerging requiring sophisticated mathematical methods of analysis. The imminent clinical challenge will be to develop comprehensive diagnostic and treatment modules individually tailored to the time-variable needs of patients and their families.

Keywords: classification; etiopathogenesis; psychoses; psychotic disorders; schizophrenia.

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