Table of contents for Genes, environment, and psychopathology : understanding the causes of psychiatric and substance use disorders / Kenneth S. Kendler, Carol A. Prescott.
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Introduction
I. Background
1. The Scientific and Social Context of the Virginia Adult Twin Study of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders
2. Methodology Used in the VATSPSUD
3. Twinning and Twin Models
II. Genetic Risk
4. Internalizing Disorders
5. Externalizing and Substance Use Disorders
6. Twin Model Assumptions
III. Environmental Risk
7. Childhood Experiences and Risk for Psychopathology
8. Adult Experiences and Risk for Psychopathology
IV. A Closer Look at Genetic and Environmental Influences
9. Sex Differences
10. Genetic and Environmental Influences on Stability and Change
11. The Genetics of What?: Comorbidity, General versus Specific Effects, and Intermediate Phenotypes
12. Three Extensions of the Twin Model
V. Bringing it All Together
13. The Genetics of the Environment
14. Mechanisms for Genetic Control of Exposure to the Environment
15. Is the Relation between Environmental Risk Factors and Psychiatric Disorders Causal?
16. Genetic Control of Sensitivity to the Environment
17. Integrative Models
18. Conclusions
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Mental illness -- Genetic aspects.
Mental illness -- Environmental aspects.
Psychiatric epidemiology.
Mental Disorders -- epidemiology.
Mental Disorders -- genetics -- Statistics.
Risk Factors -- Statistics.
Twin Studies -- Statistics.