Psychiatrists' views of the genetic bases of mental disorders and behavioral traits and their use of genetic tests

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 202, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 530-538

  Klitzman, Robert ^a   Abbate, Kristopher J ^a   Chung, Wendy K ^a   Marder, Karen ^a   Ottman, Ruth ^a   Taber, Katherine Johansen ^b   Leu, Cheng Shiun ^a   Appelbaum, Paul S ^c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

decision making; epigenetics; etiology; genetic testing; Genomics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CREATIVITY; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENTAL DISEASE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PEDOPHILIA; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PSYCHIATRIST; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENETIC TESTING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; PSYCHIATRY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84903791975     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000154     Document Type: Article

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