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Author MacCabe, James H

Title The Extremes of the Bell Curve : Excellent and Poor School Performance and Risk for Severe Mental Disorders
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (197 pages)
Series Maudsley Series
Maudsley series.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER ONE: Background; CHAPTER TWO: Intelligence, creativity and mental illness; CHAPTER THREE: Pre-morbid neuropsychological functioning in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: a review of the published literature; CHAPTER FOUR: The study of pre-morbid school performance in schizophrenia and other psychoses (SP3); CHAPTER FIVE: School performance and psychosis: unadjusted analyses; CHAPTER SIX: Confounding and interaction: finding the model that best describes the data
CHAPTER SEVEN: School performance in individual school subjectsCHAPTER EIGHT: General discussion; Appendix; References; Index
Summary Discusses evidence from Swedish population data suggesting that children who achieve either exceptionally high, or very low grades at school, are at greater risk of adult mental health
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Subject Academic achievement -- Sweden -- Psychological aspects
Mental illness -- Etiology.
Academic achievement -- Psychological aspects
Mental illness -- Etiology
Sweden
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203853108
0203853105
128258670X
9781282586703