Psychiatric genetic research brings on the possibility of psychiatric genetic testing. The
optimal and responsible utilization of genetic testing depends on knowledge of the potential …

Discussions about genetic contributions to medical illness have become increasingly
commonplace. Physicians and other health-care providers in all quarters of medicine, from …

Members of the genetic counseling community have debated the need for doctoral degree
programs to further advance the profession. However, genetic counselors' interest in …

More research is needed to determine how to structure health communications and
counseling to motivate informed use, promote positive responses, and optimize behavior …

Most diseases run in families—this is also true of virtually all psychiatric disorders. Twin and
adoption studies have shown that most psychiatric disorders have a genetic component, yet …

Objective: To determine, by response to a scenario, how willing primary care physicians
would be to counsel a couple about prenatal diagnosis of cystic fibrosis and how directive …

Faculty and residents of the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry, members of
the Alliance for the Mentally Ill (AMI), and university students were surveyed to elicit attitudes …

Aim: There has been increasing interest in the concept of applying genetic counselling to
psychiatric disorders, but despite its relevance to psychiatric illness, and interest from the …

Due in part to shortages of health care professionals with expertise in genetics, primary care
physicians will assume a greater role in providing frontline genetic services as genetic tests …

Lessons from past psychiatric genetic research, together with key issues in psychiatry
requiring genetic investigation, are reviewed in order to consider the implications for the …