Finger and ab palmar ridge-count dermatoglyphic features were studied in schizophrenics
with and without a positive family history of schizophrenia. Associations are reported for low …

This paper reexamines recent epidemiologic and molecular genetic studies on the genetic
basis of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Careful analysis of the available epidemiologic data …

Family, twin, and adoption studies have produced strong evidence that genes play a major
role in schizophrenic conditions. These conventional approaches, however, are not able to …

Biological psychiatry has four principal modes of investigation but each has been flawed by
errors in procedure and inference such that the bulk of existing findings must be called into …

Electroencephalographic (EEG) coherence has been suggested to be an index of the
connectivity of the brain. It represents the coupling between two EEG signals from different …

Genetic psychophysiology examines interindividual variation in psychophysiological traits
using behavioral genetic and molecular genetic techniques. It aims to delineate the …

Publisher Summary The interaction between genotype and environment is one of the most
widely employed concepts in genetics as it is in the behavioral sciences. This chapter …

Genetic linkage studies of schizophrenia depend on accurate psychiatric diagnosis of
relatives within multiply affected families. Each investigator makes a series of explicit or …

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 …

Heterogeneity, both inter-and intrafamilial, represents a serious problem in linkage studies
of common complex diseases. In this study we simulated different scenarios with families …