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By Peter Williamson. 278 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 2006. $65. ISBN 0-19-517637-5.

Mind, Brain, and Schizophrenia fills a gap in the psychiatric literature by offering an impressive — yet intelligible, manageable, and relatively short — review of our knowledge of the neurobiologic and neuropsychological processes involved in the development of schizophrenia. Williamson insists that psychiatrists should know more about the brain, a statement we can only agree with. Knowledge of the biology of the brain is necessary not only for scientists engaged in the search for new treatment strategies; an improvement in the treatment of patients with schizophrenia with the tools we have today also depends on improved knowledge of brain functions . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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