The missing gene psychiatry, heredity, and the fruitless search for genes

What causes psychiatric disorders to appear? Are they primarily the result of people's environments, or of their genes? Increasingly, we are told that research has confirmed the importance of genetic influences on schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disord

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Joseph, Jay (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Algora Pub c2006.
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  • A generation misinformed : psychiatry and psychology textbooks' inaccurate accounts of schizophrenia adoption research
  • Irving Gottesman's 1991 schizophrenia genesis : a primary scource for misunderstanding the genetics of schizophrenia
  • Autism and genetics : much ado about very little
  • The 1942 "Euthanasia" debate in the American Journal of Psychiatry
  • The twin method's Achilles' heel : a critical review of the equal environment assumption test literature
  • Bipolar disorder and genetics
  • Genotype or genohype? : the fruitless search for genes in psychiatry.