… perceived dichotomy between ‘common’ and ‘rare’ variants is not only false, but unhelpful
in making progress towards increasing our understanding of the genetic basis of psychiatric …

… At heart, arguments comparing the heritability of endophenotype and illness introduce a
false dichotomy in which studies of illness and endophenotype are assumed to be mutually …

… for psychiatric disorders. In so doing, we examine how findings in psychiatric genetics
can impact on our understanding of the basic nature of psychiatric disorders. Especially, can …

… This essay reviews what psychiatric genetics has taught us about the nature of psychiatric
illness and what we may yet learn from the new emerging findings. I organize this essay …

… However, psychiatry constantly falls into the trap of setting up false dichotomies and is …
We argue that false dichotomies and binary thinking of this type might attract attention and …

… Thus, researchers were early confronted with many problems of psychiatric genetic studies,
such as the samples used for investigation in order to gain sufficient statistical power, the …

… If we view psychiatric genetics as a potential … psychiatric genetic researchers urged
potential funding sources not to “give up” on genome-wide association (GWA) studies of “psychiatric …

… levels of understanding, most are aware that genetics plays a role in ALS at some level. The
standard response to questions about genetic risk is to make a concrete distinction between …

… At present, psychiatry is in a state of flux, and advances in neuroscience and genetics are
soon likely to challenge many of its current theoretical underpinnings, particularly those related …

… nurture debate on the causes of mental illness is now understood to be a false dichotomy
38, 39 . Variation in risk of mental illness is neither solely due to variation in DNA or …