Editorial

Nature, Nurture, and Treatment Specificity

Jan Fawcett, MD

  • Psychiatric Annals
  • November 2011 - Volume 41 · Issue 11: 517-517
  • DOI: 10.3928/00485713-20111017-01
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Abstract

This November issue of Psychiatric Annals features a comprehensive review of eating disorders, guest edited by Katherine A. Halmi, MD.

As I read through the discussion of epigenetically triggered familial-genetic endophenotypes, imaging findings, and studies of cognitive functions across a spectrum of disorder, I noted a familiar pattern to that of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and mood disorders. I saw evidence of familial-genetic vulnerability, similar patterns of brain circuitry function, and similar neurocognitive functioning deficits within each subtype of the category.

doi: 10.3928/00485713-20111017-01

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