Sentences with phrase «genetics of alcoholism»

The findings may also help unravel the complex genetics of alcoholism.

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Bierut: I am trained as a psychiatrist, so I have my medical degree and specialized training in psychiatric disorders such as alcoholism, depression, schizophrenia, and I also have training in genetics so to understand how illnesses are transmitted through families, and so we are trying to look at how mental illnesses and addictions are transmitted in families and understand the underlying genetic causes of them.

But Manitoba's former chief public health officer Dr Joel Kettner says the evidence points to social conditions such as poverty, not genetics, as a driver of alcoholism, and this is where we should be focusing our attention, he argues.

Clinical, psychophysiology, behavior genetics, biological makers of schizophrenia, drug abuse, alcoholism, the course and development of psychopathology, lie detection