Overview
This groundbreaking volume synthesizes the results of the Virginia Adult Twin Study of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders, which yielded longitudinal data on more than 9,000 individuals. The authors trace how risk for depression, anxiety, eating disorders, antisocial behavior, alcoholism, and substance abuse emerges from the interplay of a variety of genetic and environmental influences. Major questions addressed include whether risk is disorder-specific, how to distinguish between correlational and causal genetic and environmental factors, sex differences in risk, and how risk and protective factors interact over time.
Full Product Details
Author: Kenneth S. Kendler ,
Carol A. Prescott ,
Matthew McGue ,
Robert Plomin
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Imprint: Guilford Publications
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.606kg
ISBN: 9781593856458
ISBN 10: 1593856458
Pages: 412
Publication Date: 17 January 2008
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
Over the last 20 years, it is likely that no other single study has had a greater impact on academic psychiatry than the Virginia Adult Twin Study, which has been instrumental in ushering in the current genomics era in biological psychiatry. Kendler and Prescott have done the field an immeasurable service by placing the major findings from the study under a single cover. - Matt McGue, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, USA This most engaging book by world leaders in psychiatric genetics is an essential read... It provides a lively, balanced, informative conceptual understanding of how genes and environment work together in causal pathways as they operate over time. - Michael Rutter, MD, FRS, Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK For students, the straightforward and highly informative details of the methods used to test major and ancillary questions will be particularly valuable. Scientists, for their part, will benefit from having a single, well-referenced source on this excellent study. - Marc A. Schuckit, MD, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego; Alcohol Research Center, VA San Diego Healthcare System, USA Clear, thoughtful, and timely... This book is a gift to all those willing to embrace the underlying complexity of psychiatric disorders and substance abuse. - Twin Research and Human Genetics
Over the last 20 years, it is likely that no other single study has had a greater impact on academic psychiatry than the Virginia Adult Twin Study, which has been instrumental in ushering in the current genomics era in biological psychiatry. Kendler and Prescott have done the field an immeasurable service by placing the major findings from the study under a single cover. - Matt McGue, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, USA This most engaging book by world leaders in psychiatric genetics is an essential read... It provides a lively, balanced, informative conceptual understanding of how genes and environment work together in causal pathways as they operate over time. - Michael Rutter, MD, FRS, Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK For students, the straightforward and highly informative details of the methods used to test major and ancillary questions will be particularly valuable. Scientists, for their part, will benefit from having a single, well-referenced source on this excellent study. - Marc A. Schuckit, MD, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego; Alcohol Research Center, VA San Diego Healthcare System, USA Clear, thoughtful, and timely... This book is a gift to all those willing to embrace the underlying complexity of psychiatric disorders and substance abuse. - Twin Research and Human Genetics
""Over the last 20 years, it is likely that no other single study has had a greater impact on academic psychiatry than the Virginia Adult Twin Study, which has been instrumental in ushering in the current genomics era in biological psychiatry. Kendler and Prescott have done the field an immeasurable service by placing the major findings from the study under a single cover."" - Matt McGue, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, USA ""This most engaging book by world leaders in psychiatric genetics is an essential read... It provides a lively, balanced, informative conceptual understanding of how genes and environment work together in causal pathways as they operate over time."" - ""Michael Rutter, MD, FRS, Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK ""For students, the straightforward and highly informative details of the methods used to test major and ancillary questions will be particularly valuable. Scientists, for their part, will benefit from having a single, well-referenced source on this excellent study."" -"" ""Marc A. Schuckit, MD, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego; Alcohol Research Center, VA San Diego Healthcare System, USA ""Clear, thoughtful, and timely... This book is a gift to all those willing to embrace the underlying complexity of psychiatric disorders and substance abuse."" - Twin Research and Human Genetics
Author Information
Kenneth S. Kendler, MD, is the Banks Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Human Genetics at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University. Since 1983, he has been engaged in studies of the genetics of psychiatric and substance use disorders, and he has been the director of the Virginia Adult Twin Study of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders since its inception. Dr. Kendler's work has utilized the methods of both large-scale population-based twin studies and molecular genetics. He has published over 430 peer-reviewed articles, has received a number of national and international awards, is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, serves on several editorial boards, and is Editor of Psychological Medicine. Since 1996, Dr. Kendler has served as Director of the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics. Carol A. Prescott, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California. From 1992 to 2005, she was on the faculty of the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics of Virginia Commonwealth University, where she served as Co-Director of the Virginia Adult Twin Study of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders. Dr. Prescott has published extensively on genetic influences on alcoholism and other forms of psychopathology. She serves as Associate Editor for Behavior Genetics and Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. Her honors include election to membership in the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology and the Theodore Reich Prize from the International Society on Psychiatric Genetics.
