A primer on understanding the influence of specific genetic variants on cognition, affective regulation, personality, and central nervous system disorders.
Contents
Preface; Introduction; I Methodologies for Genetic Association Studies of Cognition; 1 Molecular Genetics and Bioinformatics; 2 Statistical Methods in Neuropsychiatric Genetics; 3 Animal Models of Genetic Effects on Cognition; II Genetic Approaches to Individual Differences in Cognition and Affective Regulation; 4 The Genetics of Intelligence; 5 Candidate Genes Associated with Attention and Cognitive Control; 6 Genetics of Corticolimbic Function and Emotional Reactivity; 7 Genes Associated with Individual Differences in Cognitive Aging
III Genetic Studies of Cognition and Treatment Response in Neuropsychiatric Disease8 Genetics of Dyslexia; 9 Cognitive Intermediate Phenotypes in Schizophrenia Genetics; 10 The Genetic Basis for the Cognitive Deterioration of Alzheimer's Disease; 11 Pharmacogenetic Approaches to Neurocognition in Schizophrenia; Contributors; Index
