Environmental and genetic influences on early attachment

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 25-

  Gervai, Judit ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME A; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 4 RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CAREGIVER; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD REARING; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MONOAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REVIEW; TEMPERAMENT; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 70350098752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17532000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1753-2000-3-25     Document Type: Review

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