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

• Autore: Joseph Jay
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Algora Pub., c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.89/042
• Soggetto topico: Genetic psychology; Mental illness - Genetic aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The missing gene
• ISBN: 1-281-39554-4; 9786611395544; 0-87586-412-0; 0-87586-411-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451795203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II