THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF GENETICS TO PROBLEMS OF NOSOLOGY AND INTERRELATIONSHIP IN PSYCHIATRY

摘要: Psychiatrists who consider the role of heredity in their research or clinical frameworks have reason to be concerned about problems diagnosis, classification, and interrelationship mental disorders. In applying genetic techniques patient populations families, they avoid hazards, choosing index cases, making too few diagnostic distinctions, many, wrong ones. They been accused working with nonhomogeneous collections, on one hand, ad hoc divisions, other, lacking sophistication regarding individuality human lives. Actually, however, discipline psychiatric genetics has as its chief goals development for eventually clinically useful distinctions discovering interrelationships that also an etiological basis. As any other approach directed refinement nosology, a study may start wide catch subjects defined symptomatic, social, pragmatic bases, but lead enlightening fashion, by process subdivision elimination, more clearly groups.