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The Extremes of the Bell Curve: Excellent and Poor School Performance and Risk for Severe Mental Disorders book cover

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The Extremes of the Bell Curve Excellent and Poor School Performance and Risk for Severe Mental Disorders

By James H. MacCabe Copyright 2010
200 Pages
by Psychology Press

200 Pages
by Psychology Press
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It has long been claimed that there is a strong association between high intelligence, or exceptional creativity, and mental illness. In this book, James MacCabe investigates this claim, using evidence from Swedish population data. He finds evidence that children who achieve either exceptionally high, or very low grades at school, are at greater risk of adult mental health disorders. This book... Read more

Background. Intelligence, Creativity and Mental Illness. Pre-morbid Neuropsychological Functioning in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder: A Review of the Published Literature. The Study of Premorbid School Performance in Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses. School Performance and Psychosis: Unadjusted Analyses. Confounding and Interaction: Finding the Model That Best Describes the Data. School Performance in Individual School Subjects. General Discussion. Appendix.

Biography

James H. MacCabe is Senior Lecturer in Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, where he conducts research on the causes, consequences and treatment of psychosis. He is also Consultant Psychiatrist at the National Psychosis Unit, Bethlem Royal Hospital.

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