Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders: Frontiers for Preventive Intervention ResearchPatricia Beezley Mrazek, Robert J. Haggerty National Academies Press, 1994 M01 15 - 605 pages Highlighting opportunities for and barriers to interventions, this book draws on successful models for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, injuries, and smoking. In addition, it reviews the risk factors associated with Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and alcohol abuse and dependence, depressive disorders, and conduct disorders, and evaluates current prevention programs. |
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... genetic causes of disease is among the most active and exciting areas of biomedical investigation and promises to make substantial contributions to our understanding of mental disorders . Genetic studies can tell us much about ...
... genetic causes of disease is among the most active and exciting areas of biomedical investigation and promises to make substantial contributions to our understanding of mental disorders . Genetic studies can tell us much about ...
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... genetic vulnerability may predispose to schizophrenia , and may even be necessary , genetic factors by themselves cannot account for the illness . Many of the data are consistent with a developmental disorder that is set in place via ...
... genetic vulnerability may predispose to schizophrenia , and may even be necessary , genetic factors by themselves cannot account for the illness . Many of the data are consistent with a developmental disorder that is set in place via ...
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... genetic and environmental influences for the other illustrative disorders . It has become evident that even though some risk factors , primarily genetic ones , may be specific to a particular disorder , others are common to many ...
... genetic and environmental influences for the other illustrative disorders . It has become evident that even though some risk factors , primarily genetic ones , may be specific to a particular disorder , others are common to many ...
Contents
SUMMARY | 1 |
TREATMENT RESEARCH AND PREVENTION | 8 |
The Risk Reduction Model | 9 |
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