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

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Genetic research in psychiatry has reached the crisis stage due to the continuing failure to identify the genes presumed to cause many of today's most troubling mental disorders. Dr. Joseph presents a clearly argued explanation for this failure, and warns that by focusing on the wrong goal, pre...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Joseph, Jay
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Algora Pub., ©2006.
Subjects:
Genetic psychology.
Mental illness > Genetic aspects.
Biological Psychiatry > trends
Mental Disorders > genetics
Diseases in Twins > genetics
Genetic Research
Psychologie génétique.
Maladies mentales > Aspect génétique.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
Genetic psychology
Mental illness > Genetic aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The twin method: science or pseudoscience?
  • ADHD genetic research: activity deserving of attention, or studies disordered by deficits?
  • 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 of misinformation on 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.

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