The social environment plays a considerable role in determining major psychiatric disorders.
Emerging evidence suggests that features of the social environment modify gene expression …

This chapter describes how psychiatry defines and organizes psychiatric syndromes and
identifies the kinds of clinical features associated with the syndromes most relevant to …

By 2050, nearly 1 in 5 Americans (19%) will be an immigrant, including Hispanics, Blacks,
and Asians, compared to the 1 in 8 (12%) in 2005. They will vary in the extent to which they …

Intriguing findings on genetic and environmental causation suggest a need to reframe the
etiology of mental disorders. Molecular genetics shows that thousands of common and rare …

Although we generally experience our bodies as being biologically stable across time and
situations, an emerging field of research is demonstrating that external social conditions …

Most contemporary accounts of psychopathology acknowledge the importance of both
biological and environmental influences on behavior. In developmental psychopathology …

Psychiatry's reliance on biological models has resulted increasingly in the social realm's
being dismissed or trivialized. The author examines the adverse consequences of this …

The germ theory of disease and the attendant public health initiatives, including sanitation,
vaccination, and antibiotic treatment, led to dramatic increases in global life expectancy. As …

In this chapter, we have reviewed the behavior genetic literature for a number of the major
forms of child and adult psychopathology, including schizophrenia, schizophrenia spectrum …

Objective: To review the North American literature with respect to the role of social factors in
the etiology of psychosis, including schizophrenia. Method: Relevant publications were …