Since its beginnings, psychiatric genetics has stimulated the field of psychiatry and led to
crucial questions about the nature of psychiatric disorders. An example of the early debates …

The past years have been an incredibly exciting time in the field of psychiatric genetics.
Technological and methodological advances, coupled with significant increases in sample …

For over a century, psychiatric disorders have been defined by expert opinion and clinical
observation. The modern DSM has relied on a consensus of experts to define categorical …

Human genetic studies have been the driving force in bringing to light the underlying biology
of psychiatric conditions. As these studies fill in the gaps in our knowledge of the …

Mental disorders are familial. This notion has been entertained long before psychiatry
became a scientific discipline. Since then, studies for nearly every psychiatric disorder have …

A substantial contribution of genetic factors to the risk of psychiatric disorders such as
schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, and drug and alcohol dependence has already …

Background. As advances in genetics further our ability to identify genes influencing
psychiatric disorders, the next challenge facing psychiatric genetics is to characterize the …

Psychiatric genetics is an exciting new discipline that explores how our minds and behavior
are influenced by our genes. Increased interest in this area of medical genetics has been …

At the time DNA was discovered 50 years ago, psychiatric genetics was in a state of relative
dormancy, resulting from the misuse of genetic theories during the World War II era. As the …

Objective–To present an overview on current progress and future directions in psychiatric
genetics. Methods—The review of studies that have demonstrated a genetic contribution to a …