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Genetic Epidemiology in Child Psychiatric Nursing Tourette's Syndrome as a Model
Author(s) -
SCAHILL LAWRENCE,
ORT SHARON,
HARDIN MAUREEN
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6171
pISSN - 1073-6077
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6171.1991.tb00514.x
Subject(s) - epidemiology , psychiatry , psychiatric genetics , genetic epidemiology , tourette syndrome , epidemiology of child psychiatric disorders , tics , psychiatric epidemiology , relevance (law) , medicine , psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , political science , law
Recent discoveries in the field of molecular biology and increased attention to genetic epidemiology have stimulated renewed interest in the genetics of psychiatric disorders. Tourette's syndrome, a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by motor and phonic tics, is used as a model to describe the research strategies employed in the genetic epidemiology of child psychiatric disorders. The relevance of genetic research findings to child psychiatric nursing is also discussed.