Psychiatric Epidemiology : Searching for the Causes of Mental Disorders Hardback
by Ezra (Professor and Chair, Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia Univers Susser, Sharon (Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Associate Professor of Clinical Epid Schwartz, Alfredo (Professor and Head, Professor and Head, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Univers Morabia, Evelyn (Professor of Psychiatry and Preventive Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry and Prevent Bromet
Part of the Oxford Psychiatry Series series
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Searching for the causes of mental disorders is as exciting as it is complex.
The relationship between pathophysiology and its overt manifestations is exceedingly intricate, and often the causes of a disorder are elusive at best.
This book is an invaluable resource for anyone trying to track these causes, whether they be clinical researchers, public health practitioners, or psychiatric epidemiologists-in-training.
Uniting theory and practice in very clear language, it makes a wonderful contribution to both epidemiologic and psychiatric research.
Rather than attempting to review the descriptive epidemiology of mental disorders, this book gives a much more dynamic exposition of the thinking and techniques used to establish it. Starting out by tracing the brief history of psychiatric epidemiology, the book describes the study of risk factors as causes of mental disorders.
Subsequent sections discuss approaches to investigation of biologic, genetic or social causes and the statistical analysis of study results.
The book concludes by following some of the problems involved in the search for genetic causes of mental disorders, and more complex causal relationships.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:544 pages, 5 halftones, 21 line illustrations, tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:06/07/2006
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- ISBN:9780195101812
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:544 pages, 5 halftones, 21 line illustrations, tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:06/07/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195101812
