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Synopsis
Utilizing the flood of new information deriving from the Human Genome Project and corresponding efforts to elucidate the mouse genome, the Handbook of Genetic Influences on the Nervous System provides a comprehensive catalog about relations between expression of specific genes and nerve cell biology and behavior, both normal and abnormal, in animals and humans. Topics addressed include genomic information of relevance to the nervous system; results of positional cloning studies; results of antisense DNA studies; experimental studies of genetic influences on CNS and behavior; and material on inherited diseases of CNS and behavior in humans.
Synopsis
Utilizing the flood of information derived from the Human Genome Project and corresponding efforts to elucidate the mouse genome, Genetic Influences on Neural and Behavioral Functions provides a scholarly catalog, organized logically, of relations between the expression of specific genes, nerve cell biology and behavior, normal and abnormal, in animals AND humans.
Sample topics include genes in relation to schiziphrenia, panic disorder, epilepsy, alcoholism, sleep, eating disorders, and more.
Table of Contents
Ch. 1. Genes and brain function: an introduction -- Ch. 2. Genetics and opioid pharmacology -- Ch. 3. The search for susceptibility genes in bipolar disorder -- Ch. 4. Genetics of schizophrenia -- Ch. 5. The genetic basis and neurobiological characteristics of obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Ch. 6. Panic disorder: a genetic perspective -- Ch. 7. The genetics of epilepsy: mouse and human studies -- Ch. 8. Genetics of alcoholism -- Ch. 9. Alcohol and other abused drugs -- Ch. 10. Molecular genetics of primary tumors of the central nervous system