The application of molecular genetics to the study of mental disorders has begun in earnest.
Most of the initial interest has focused on the functional psychoses as these common and …

Summary N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors are involved in long-term potentiation,
burst firing and the generation of patterned activity in neuronal networks; in use-dependent …

Such studies have not been provided by Furthermore, diabetes has numerous findings is
particularly true of the ea opponents of the biological theories of biological causes and can …

Although the serious study of the genetics of psychiatric disorders is now a subject well into
its seventh decade, never before has there been greater interest. This can largely be traced …

The report that DNA markers on chromosome 5 showed overwhelming evidence of linkage
to a gene for susceptibility to schizophrenia (Sherrington et al. 1988) has naturally aroused …

Family, twin and adoption studies have shown that familial clustering in schizophrenia is
predominantly due to genetic factors. On the basis of segregation analyses of the illness …

The classification of schizophrenia Page 1 Chapter 2 The classification of schizophrenia
RICHARD P. BENTALL 2.1 INTRODUCTION In his essay, 'John Wilkin's analytical language' …

Within the past twelve months two distinguished scientific journals have once again raised
the issue of nature versus nurture in health and sickness. The conclusion continues to be …

Although the existence of a strong genetic component of psychotic disorders has been
recognized for decades, neither the mechanism for inheritance of the gene (s) nor its …

Auch in den scheinbar so exakten Naturwissenschaften spielen Metaphern, Analogien oder
Leitbilder eine große Rolle. Das ist wenig verwunderlich, weil naturwissenschaftliche …