How Genes Influence Behavior takes a personal and lively approach to the study of behavioral genetics, providing an up-to-date and accessible introduction to a variety of approaches and their application to a wide range of disorders, and modeling a critical approach to both methods and results. This second edition includes additional biology content to help students understand the biological foundations of the field, while maintaining an appropriate focus on the main issues of relevance to psychology students; updates coverage of genomic technologies and their applications; and covers a wider range of disorders, including autism spectrum disorder, eating disorders, and intellectual disability. A new final chapter guides students through a range of quantitative approaches using workedexamples that relate directly to cases and examples used earlier in the text, and addresses current issues arising from debates around reproducibility. The online resources that accompany this book include:: For students * Multiple choice questions for students to check their threshold knowledge * Data sets for students to manipulate, so that they can apply what they have learned For lecturers * Figures and tables from the book, ready to download
Introduction; The genetic epidemiology of schizophrenia; Molecular biology of nucleic acids; Epigenetics, gene regulation, and omic technologies; Linkage and association; Genome wide association studies (GWAS); Molecular genetics of schizophrenia; Autism spectrum disorder; Intellectual disability and developmental disorders; Anxiety, depression, and eating disorders; Alcoholism; The genetics of intelligence, personality, and personality disorders; Genes for what?; Genes and the environment; Mapping mouse behavior; Reverse genetics; Mutagenesis and the molecular dissection of circadian rhythms; Many vs. One: Genetic Variation in Flies and Worms; Comparative genomics; How genes influence behavior; How do we know a finding is true? Quantitative Approaches; Appendix;
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