For some time, psychopathology researchers have attempted to disentangle genetic and
environmental influences on psychopathology and to characterize the nature and magnitude …

Abstract consider... a few of the ways in which behavioral genetics may provide powerful
research leverage for gaining an increased understanding of normal developmental …

Genetics, both quantitative and molecular, is likely to ignite an explosion of research in child
psychopathology as it has done in adult psychopathology during the past two decades. We …

The important implications for developmental psychopathology that derive from advances in
psychiatric and behavioral genetics are discussed in relation to a series of mistaken …

Behavioral genetic research unequivocally supports the influence of both genetic and
environmental factors on psychopathology risk. Decomposition of the sources of these …

The disciplines of developmental psychopathology and behavior genetics are concerned
with many of the same questions about the etiology and course of normal and abnormal …

Epidemiologic studies demonstrating high rates of co-occurrence among psychiatric
disorders at the population level have contributed to large literatures focused on identifying …

Research on child psychopathology is a largely biogenetic endeavor these days, at least
according to current funding priorities at the National Institutes of Health in the US. This …

Conceptualizations of the importance and mechanisms of involvement of genetic factors in
the etiology of child and adolescent psychopathology are undergoing major changes. In this …

New discoveries about the genetic underpinnings of many kinds of human experience are
now continually being made. This book explores the impact of these discoveries on the ways …