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Understanding and testing risk mechanisms for mental disorders
Author(s) -
Rutter Michael
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2008.01976.x
Subject(s) - moderation , psychology , mediation , developmental psychology , identification (biology) , cognitive psychology , social psychology , ecology , political science , law , biology
Over the past 50 years there has been a virtual revolution in thinking about risk mechanisms. The key areas of challenge and opportunity include: identification of environmental causes; use of natural experiments; gene–environment interaction; testing for mediation; developmental moderation; biological programming; and developmental perturbations.