Attention, Genes and ADHD

ISBN-13: 9781841691930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 288 str.

Florence Levy; David A. Hay

Opis

Recent advances in genetic methodology are providing important aetiological and developmental information to the growing literature on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and related conditions. Attention, Genes and ADHD is the first book to review and integrate both behaviour-genetic and molecular-genetic advances in this area. It brings together international researchers to show how modern techniques may be applied to the investigation of ADHD, and reviews current findings in the field of ADHD and related conditions.
The book looks at the application of behaviour genetic approaches to twin studies, and reviews diagnostic to ADHD, the relationships between reading, spelling and ADHD, and family and genetic influences on speech and speech and language.
Chapters go on to consider the overlaps between ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder and to explore the environmental and genetic influences among these disorders. The neurobiological and genetic relationship between ADHD and Tourette's Disorder is also examined. The book reviews recent advances in molecular genetics - in particular a discussion of Fragile X as a model for a single single gene effects on ADHD, and the application of genetic methods and approaches to the study of candidate genes. Finally, the implications for education and intervention are discussed, and current and future roles of gentic studies of ADHD are explored, as well as implications of the sequencing of the human genome for child psychiatry.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Introduction to the genetic analysis of attentional disorders 3. The diagnostic genetics of ADHD symptoms and subtypes 4. The developmental genetics of ADHD 5. Familial and genetic bases of speech and language disorders 6. Comorbidity of reading/spelling disability and ADHD 7. Causes of the overlap among symptoms of ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and Conduct Disorder 8. Aetiology of the sex difference in the prevalence of DSM-III-R ADHD: A comparison of two models 9. Single gene studies of ADHD 10. Molecular genetics of ADHD 11. The genetic relationship between ADHD and Gilles de la Tourette syndrome 12. Implications of genetic studies of attention problems for education and intervention 13. Child psychiatry in the era following sequencing the genome

O autorze

Florence Levy (Edited by) , David Hay (Edited by)