The scientific and social context of the Virginia Adult Twin Study of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders -- Methodology used in the VATSPSUD -- Twinning and twin models -- Internalizing disorders -- Externalizing and substance use disorders -- Twin model assumptions -- Childhood experiences and risk for psychopathology -- Adult experiences and risk for psychopathology -- Sex differences -- Genetic and environmental influences on stability and change -- The genetics of what?: comorbidity, general versus specific effects, and risk indicators -- Three extensions of the twin model -- The genetics of the environment -- Mechanisms for genetic control of exposure to the environment -- Is the relation between environmental risk factors and psychiatric disorders causal? -- Genetic control of sensitivity to the environment -- Integrative models
Summary
"One of the central questions in the study of psychopathology is why certain people develop psychiatric and substance use disorders while others - even those with similar family backgrounds and life experiences - do not. This groundbreaking volume synthesizes the results of a landmark research program to shed new light on the ways genetic and environmental influences weave together to create risk for particular disorders."--BOOK JACKET
Notes
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-376) and indexes