Article
Phenotyping psychosis: room for neurocomputational and content-dependent cognitive endophenotypes?
Cognitive neuropsychiatry - 1 Jan 2009
Chen Eric Y H, Wong Gloria H Y, Hui Christy L M, Tang Jennifer Y M, Chiu Cindy P Y, Lam May M L, Sham P C
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: The endophenotype research strategy aims at reducing complex clinical phenomena to reveal a more tractable mapping to underlying genes. Cognitive dysfunctions have been widely pursued as target endophenotype in schizophrenia. We critically discuss the promise and limitations of this approach. METHODS: Relevant theoretical and empirical issues on genes and behaviour, neurocognitive structure and...
Topics
- Cognition
- Computational Biology
- Genotype
- Humans
- Mental Disorders
- Neurology
- Phenotype
- Psychotic Disorders
