The missing gene
Subtitle: psychiatry, heredity, and the fruitless search for genes
By: by Jay Joseph.
Publisher: Algora Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Genetic psychology.; Mental illness -- Genetic aspects.; Biological Psychiatry -- trends.; Mental Disorders -- genetics.; Diseases in Twins -- genetics.; Genetic Research.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The twin method: science or pseudoscience?; title: ADHD genetic research: activity deserving of attention, or studies disordered by deficits?; title: A critique of the spectrum concept as used in the Danish-American schizophrenia adoption studies; title: Pellagra and genetic research; title: A generation misinformed: psychiatry and psychology textbooks' inaccurate accounts of schizophrenia adoption research; title: Irving Gottesman's 1991 schizophrenia genesis: a primary scource of misinformation on the genetics of schizophrenia; title: Autism and genetics: much ado about very little; title: The 1942 "Euthanasia" debate in the American Journal of Psychiatry; title: The twin method's Achilles' heel: a critical review of the equal environment assumption test literature; title: Bipolar disorder and genetics; title: Genotype or genohype? the fruitless search for genes in psychiatry.