Psychiatric epidemiology : searching for the causes of mental disorders
Susser, Ezra S.Contributor
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2006.
Starting out by tracing the brief history of psychiatric epidemiology, this text describes the study of risk factors as causes of mental disorders. Subsequent sections discuss approaches to investigation of biologic, genetic or social causes and the statistical analysis of study results.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Starting out by tracing the brief history of psychiatric epidemiology, this text describes the study of risk factors as causes of mental disorders. Subsequent sections discuss approaches to investigation of biologic, genetic or social causes and the statistical analysis of study results.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The burden of mental illness / Evelyn J. Bromet and Ezra Susser -- The arc of epidemiology / Ezra Susser and Alfredo Morabia -- Searching for the causes of mental disorders / Ezra Susser ... [et al.] -- What is a cause? / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Detecting causes / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Study designs / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Relationships among causes / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Measures of association / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Prototypical cohort study / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Diversity of cohort studies / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Causal inference: a thought experiment / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Confounding: what it is and what can be done / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Unequal attrition under different types of follow-up / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz --
Differential misclassification / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Logic of the case control design / Alfredo Morabia, Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Applications of the case control study / Evelyn J. Bromet ... [et al.] -- Choosing controls / Sharon Schwartz, Alfredo Morabia and Ezra Susser -- Comparability and the case control study / Alfredo Morabia, Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Biologic studies in psychiatry / Jack M. Gorman and Ezra Susser -- Choosing cases in biologic psychiatry / Evelyn J. Bromet ... [et al.] -- Choosing controls in biologic psychiatry / Sharon Schwartz, Ezra Susser and Jack M. Gorman -- Gauging the precision of measures of association / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Using significance tests in establishing associations / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Planning studies: estimating power and sample size / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Adjustment for covariates / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Event time analysis / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Assessing heterogeneity of effects / Alfredo Morabia and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Integrating epidemiology with genetics / Mary-Claire King , Habibul Ahsan and Ezra Susser -- Genetic association studies / Habibul Ahsan, Gary A. Heiman, and Ezra Susser -- Modern family history studies / Regina Zimmerman, Habibul Ahsan, and Ezra Susser --
Twin studies of heritability / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Genetic linkage studies / Susan E. Hodge ... [et al.] -- Designs for the genomic era / Mary-Claire King, Habibul Ahsan and Ezra Susser -- Eco-epidemiology / Ezra Susser, Sharon Schwartz and Alfredo Morabia -- Causal explanation within a risk factor framework / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Causal explanation outside the black box / Sharon Schwartz, Ana V. Diez Roux and Ezra Susser -- Dependent and dynamic processes / Sharon Schwartz, Ana V. Diez Roux and Ezra Susser.
Epidemiologic Methods
Mental Disorders
Psychiatry and Psychology
Investigative Techniques
Public Health
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Environment and Public Health
Health Care
Psychiatry - General
Psychiatry
Health & Biological Sciences