Research Advances in Genetics and Genomics - Implications for Psychiatry (Electronic book text)

Research Advances in Genetics and Genomics: Implications for Psychiatry introduces mental health professionals to exciting breakthroughs in endophenotypes, animal models, microarrays, and genetic mapping, as well as general strategies for identifying the genetic mechanisms of mental illnesses.Uniquely valuable both as summary and signpost, this concise volume provides a fascinating overview of recent cutting-edge developments in the application of molecular genetics, genomics, and proteomics to the study of psychiatric populations. Reprinted in this compelling work, both to commemorate the double-helix discovery and to give psychiatrists a context for the genomic era, is the original one-page April 1953 Nature paper by Watson and Crick, which sparked a revolution in the life sciences.Meticulously referenced, this volume is exceptionally useful as a starting point for understanding the impact of genetics and genomics on psychiatry, serving to introduce psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, and geneticists to this exciting field.