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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joseph, Jay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genetic psychology.

Mental illness--Genetic aspects.

Mental illness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Pub., c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

1-281-39554-4

9786611395544

0-87586-412-0

0-87586-411-2

OCLC:

185536856