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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451795203321

Autore

Joseph Jay

Titolo

The missing gene [[electronic resource] ] : psychiatry, heredity, and the fruitless search for genes / / Jay Joseph

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Algora Pub., c2006

ISBN

1-281-39554-4

9786611395544

0-87586-412-0

0-87586-411-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/042

Soggetti

Genetic psychology

Mental illness - Genetic aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-308) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

The twin method : science or pseudoscience? -- ADHD genetic research -- A critique of the spectrum concept as used in the Danish-American schizophrenia adoption studies -- Pellagra and genetic research -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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