How Genes Influence Behavior 2e / Edition 2

How Genes Influence Behavior 2e / Edition 2

ISBN-10:
0198716877
ISBN-13:
9780198716877
Pub. Date:
03/23/2020
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0198716877
ISBN-13:
9780198716877
Pub. Date:
03/23/2020
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
How Genes Influence Behavior 2e / Edition 2

How Genes Influence Behavior 2e / Edition 2

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Overview

How Genes Influence Behavior 2e 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 worked examples 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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198716877
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 03/23/2020
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 392
Product dimensions: 9.60(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Flint, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA,Ralph J. Greenspan, Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, University of California, San Diego, California, USA,Kenneth S. Kendler, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia, USA

Jonathan Flint is a Professor at the University of California Los Angeles where he works on the genetic basis of depression using both human and animal models.




Ralph Greenspan is a Professor at the University of California San Diego where he is Associate Director of Kavli Institute for Mind and Brain. He work includes analysis of the genetic control of nervous system development in the fruit fly and mouse, and genetic and neurobiological studies of innate and learned behaviors in the fruit fly.


Kenneth Kendler is a Professor at the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics at the Virginia Commonwealth University. He has conducted family and twin studies on a range of psychiatric and substance use disorders as well as molecular genetic studies on schizophrenia, alcoholism, and depression.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. The genetic epidemiology of schizophrenia3. Molecular biology of nucleic acids4. Epigenetics, gene regulation, and 'omic technologies5. Linkage and association6. Genome wide association studies (GWAS)7. Molecular genetics of schizophrenia8. Autism spectrum disorder9. Intellectual disability and developmental disorders10. Anxiety, depression, and eating disorders11. Alcoholism12. The genetics of intelligence, personality, and personality disorders13. Genes for what? 14. Genes and the environment15. Mapping mouse behavior16. Reverse genetics17. Mutagenesis and the molecular dissection of circadian rhythms18. Many vs. One: Genetic Variation in Flies and Worms19. Comparative genomics20. How genes influence behavior21. How do we know a finding is true? Quantitative ApproachesAppendix
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