Understanding and testing risk mechanisms for mental disorders

被引:49
作者
Rutter, Michael [1 ]
机构
[1] Inst Psychiat, SGDP Ctr, London SE5 8AF, England
关键词
Mediation; moderation; genetic vs; environmental mediation; natural experiments; causal inferences; ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENT; POLYMORPHISM; PSYCHOSIS; CANNABIS; ONSET; GENE; AGE;
D O I
10.1111/j.1469-7610.2008.01976.x
中图分类号
B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
学科分类号
040202 ;
摘要
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.
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