Preface

Chapter 8 **Sport: A Possible Road toward Social Inclusion and**

Maria Cristina Turola, Davide Barbieri, Angelo Palazzi, Veronica Pallotta, Luciana Simani, Chiara Tosi and Ombretta Zanardi

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**VI** Contents

Schizophrenia treatment has many facets. Among those, other than current available anti‐ psychotic agents and electroconvulsive therapy, this book begins with the glutamatergic and GABAergic hypofunctioning contribute to the schizophrenic symptoms and their current targeted therapeutics. The genetic, epigenetic, and immune etiologies of schizophrenia and their potential targeted therapeutics as approached in this book are interesting because not only the changes in DNA sequence, methylation, and transcriptome contribute to the predis‐ position of schizophrenia but also the exposure to infectious diseases coupled with a genetic component causes immune system anomaly is presented. Understanding cognitive biases and delusional circuits in schizophrenia is important; several behavioral cognitive therapies working on the reduction and avoidance of these cognitive biases are demonstrating their effectiveness. Advances in schizophrenia treatment followed, including transcranial mag‐ netic stimulation and special sport program, are presented at the book's end. Clearly, schiz‐ ophrenia treatment will even become a greater topic in the generations to come as new pathophysiologic view and therapy evolve. This book collects some important facets for fu‐ ture comprehensive coverage, as developments abound.

#### **Yu-Chih Shen, MD, PhD**

Department of Psychiatry, Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

**Provisional chapter**
