BRAVE NEW BRAIN
Conquering Mental Illness in the Era of the Genome
Nancy C. Andreasen
Oxford University Press, 2001
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Readers of this book will be familiar with the body of current knowledge on the
relation of genetics to schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and dementia.
This book reviews research on the mapping of the human genome, and the relation of genetics to
schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, and dementia. For each illness the relation of genetics to
predisposition, initiation, progression, and treatment is described.
Nancy C. Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., is Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa College
of Medicine, the Editor-in-Chief of THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY and a member of the task force that developed DSM-III and DSM-IV. She has won the National Medal of Science and written ten other books and hundreds of articles.
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