Article
Genes and neuroimaging: advances in psychiatric research.
Neuro-degenerative diseases - 1 Jan 2008
Gallinat J, Bauer M, Heinz A
Abstract excerpt
Major psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and substance addiction, are partly heritable and show a multifactorial pattern of heredity. Although the introduction of explicit diagnostic criteria has improved clinical research on psychiatric disorders, the concept is only of limited use for exploring their genetic underpinnings. On the behavioral level, psychopathological symptoms can...
Topics
- Catechol O-Methyltransferase
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Mental Disorders
- Phenotype
- Serotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins