Neurobehavioral Genetics : Methods and Applications, Second Edition (2nd ed)

Every day there is new information about how genes and the environment influence brain development and behavior.

Neurobehavioral genetics is one of the few disciplines that crosses the artificial levels of analysis.

Presenting new, important methods that have not been developed or generally used before, "Neurobehavioral Genetics, Second Edition" highlights some of these important advances.

This edition features a broad spectrum of the most current techniques in neurobehavioral genetics in a single source.

For example, the polymerase chain reaction method, sequencing the genomes, identification of DNA markers on chromosomes for gene mapping, and transgenics are techniques that revolutionized all of biology including neural and behavior genetics.

The increase of applications of microarrays, for instance, has enabled researchers to address previously intractable problems and to uncover novel potential targets for therapies.

Providing solid historical background, the introductory chapters examine past conceptual streams of behavior genetics and explain how these streams can and should come together in a comparative genetics of behavior.Later chapters discuss the applications of quantitative and molecular genetics in basic and clinical research.

Other topics include animal behavior and neurobiology and human clinical problems.

Studies from rodents to invertebrates, this edition offers a contemporary approach to the study of the brain and behavior.

It also serves as an excellent resource for investigators who want to incorporate genetic methods into neurobehavioral and psychiatric research.