Neurobehavioral Genetics features a broad spectrum of the most current techniques in neurobehavioral genetics in a single source.

Features:

• Introduces genetic correlation analysis and complex traits analysis
• Provides current animal models including nematodes, fruit flies, and rodents
• Covers the concepts and statistical techniques used in neurobehavioral genetic research
• Discusses quantitative and molecular genetic approaches
• Explores personality genetics in humans and chimpanzees

Contents

1. Background and Basic Concepts
2. A History of Behavior Genetics
3. Developmental Neurobehavioral Genetics: Development as Explanation
4. Some Basics: Mendelian Traits, Polygenic Traits and Complex Traits
5. An Introduction to Quantitative Principles
6. Methods
7. From QTL Detection to Gene Identification
8. Gene expression
9. Bioinformatics of Behavior
10. Congenic and Consomic Strains
11. Animal Resources in Behavioral Neurogenetics
12. Sample Size Requirements for Experiments on Laboratory Animals
13. Studies in Hominids
14. Neurobehavioral Genetics: The Role of Association Studies in Psychiatric Disorders
15. Family and Twin Methods
16. Gene-environment interactions
17. And Now it Starts to Get Interesting: Gene-gene interactions
18. Schizophrenia: Study of a Genetically Complex Phenotype
19. Genetics of Major Affective Disorders
20. Pedigree Analyses and the Study of Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes): Personality and Subjective Well-Being
21. The Elusive World of Personality Genes: Cherchez le phenotype
22. Studies in Rodents
23. Aggression: Concepts and Methods Relevant to Genetic Analyses in Mice and Humans
24. Genetic Analysis of Emotional Behaviors Using Animal Models
25. Studies in Invertebrates
26. Genetic Analysis of Food Search Behavior in the Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster)
27. Genetic and Molecular Analysis of Drosophila Courtship Behavior
28. Behavioral Genetics in the Nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans
29. Bridging Neurobiology and Behavior
30. Genetics, Behavior and Brain Dopamine Systems
31. Natural Genetic Variation of Hippocampal Structures and Behavior
32. Expression and Brain Structure: Black Boxes between Genes and Behaviors
33. Synaptic Mechanisms Involved in Cognitive Function: Cues From Mental Retardation Genes
34. Pharmacology
35. Pharmacogenetics
36. Alcohol Psychopharmacogenetics

Index

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