The Contribution of Epidemiology to Psychiatric Aetiology Scott Henderson Introduction Epidemiology deals with the overall patterns of disease. On one hand, people are unique with their own genetic endowment and…
Social and Cultural Anthropology: Salience for Psychiatry Arthur Kleinman Social and cultural anthropology One of the social sciences (together with history, economics, political science, sociology, and social psychology), social and…
Medical Sociology and Issues of Aetiology George W. Brown Introduction David Mechanic, in his pioneering textbook, Medical Sociology,(1) views human activity within an adaptive frameworkâas a struggle of human beings…
Neuropsychological Basis of Neuropsychiatry L. Clark B. J. Sahakian T. W. Robbins Introduction Neuropsychology makes an essential contribution to neuropsychiatry. It seeks objectively to characterize mental competence in component cognitive…
The Anatomy of Human Emotion R. J. Dolan Introduction Emotions, uniquely among mental states, are characterized by psychological and somatic referents. The former embody the subjectivity of all psychological states….
Psychology and Biology of Memory Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg Terry E. Goldberg Memory in psychiatric practice Memory is the ability to store, retain, and retrieve information. This cognitive function plays a key…
Psychology of Attention Elizabeth Coulthard Masud Husain Introduction Attention is generally taken to be the process by which people are able to concentrate on certain information or processes, while ignoring…
Developmental Psychology Through Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence William Yule Matt Woolgar Introduction The child is father to the man. This saying seems so obviously true that it may surprise some…
Molecular Genetics Jonathan Flint Introduction The transformation of the LOD score (an acronym for log of the odds ratio), from obscurity as a footnote in medical genetics, to celebrity as…
Quantitative Genetics Anita Thapar Peter McGuffin Patterns of inheritance Our understanding of how traits and disorders are passed from one generation to the next began with the work carried out…
