| Description |
xiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Florence Levy -- 2. Introduction to the genetic analysis of attentional disorders / David A. Hay, Michael McStephen and Florence Levy -- 3. The diagnostic genetics of ADHD symptoms and subtypes / Florence Levy, Michael McStephen and David A. Hay -- 4. The developmental genetics of ADHD / David A. Hay, Michael McStephen and Florence Levy -- 5. Familial and genetic bases of speech and language disorders / Barbara A. Lewis -- 6. Comorbidity of reading/spelling disability and ADHD / Jim Stevenson -- 7. Causes of the overlap among symptoms of ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and Conduct Disorder / Irwin D. Waldman, Soo Hyun Rhee and Florence Levy / [et al.] -- 8. Aetiology of the sex difference in the prevalence of DSM-III-R ADHD: a comparison of two models / Soo Hyun Rhee, Irwin D. Waldman and David A. Hay / [et al.] -- 9. Single gene studies of ADHD / Alan Zametkin, Monique Ernst and Robert Cohen -- 10. Molecular genetics of ADHD / Cathy Barr, James Swanson and James Kennedy -- 11. The genetic relationship between ADHD and Gilles de la Tourette syndrome / David Pauls, Nancy Fredine and Kimberly Lynch / [et al.] -- 12. Implications of genetic studies of attention problems for education and intervention / David A. Hay and Florence Levy -- 13. Child psychiatry in the era following sequencing the genome / Michael Rutter |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Behavior genetics.
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Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder -- Genetic aspects.
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Attention.
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Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity -- genetics.
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Genetics, Medical.
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Twins.
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Child.
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| Author |
Hay, David A.
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Levy, Florence, 1937-
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| LC no. |
00065135 |
| ISBN |
1841692670 paperback |
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1841691933 |
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