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Genes, Environment, and Psychopathology

Understanding the Causes of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders

By: Kenneth S. Kendler,Carol A. Prescott

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Genes, Environment, and Psychopathology

Understanding the Causes of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders

By: Kenneth S. Kendler,Carol A. Prescott

This groundbreaking volume synthesizes the results of the Virginia Adult Twin Study of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders, which yielded longitudinal data on more than 9,000 individuals. The authors trace how risk for depression, anxiety, eating disorders, antisocial behavior, alcoholism, and substance abuse emerges from the interplay of a variety of genetic and environmental influences. Major questions addressed include whether risk is disorder-specific, how to distinguish between correlational and causal genetic and evironmental factors, sex differences in risk, and how risk and protective factors interact over time. The book also summarizes the conceptual underpinnings of the study and describes key methodological challenges and innovations.

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Guilford Press

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1593856458

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9781593856458

How Genes Influence Behavior

By: Jonathan Flint,Ralph J. Greenspan,Kenneth S. Kendler

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How Genes Influence Behavior

By: Jonathan Flint,Ralph J. Greenspan,Kenneth S. Kendler

How Genes Influence Behavior 2e takes a personal and lively approach to the study of behavioral genetics, providing an up-to-date and accessible introduction to a variety of approaches and their application to a wide range of disorders, and modeling a critical approach to both methods and results. This second edition includes additional biology content to help students understand the biological foundations of the field, while maintaining an appropriate focus on the main issues of relevance to psychology students; updates coverage of genomic technologies and their applications; and covers a wider range of disorders, including autism spectrum disorder, eating disorders, and intellectual disability. A new final chapter guides students through a range of quantitative approaches using worked examples that relate directly to cases and examples used earlier in the text, and addresses current issues arising from debates around reproducibility. The online resources that accompany this book include: For students *Multiple choice questions for students to check their threshold knowledge *Data sets for students to manipulate, so that they can apply what they have learned For lecturers *Figures and tables from the book, ready to download

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0198716877

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Behaving

What's Genetic, What's Not, and why Should We Care?

By: Kenneth F. Schaffner

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Behaving

What's Genetic, What's Not, and why Should We Care?

By: Kenneth F. Schaffner

This book analyses the nature-nurture controversy and recent history and methodology of behavioral and psychiatric genetics. It discusses genetic reductionism, determinism, heritability, "free will," and quantitative and molecular genetics. New genome-wide association studies (GWAS) that produced a "paradigm shift" in the subject are reviewed, as are genetics of personality and schizophrenia.

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Oxford University Press

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0195171403

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