A life course approach to mental disorders /edited by Karestan C. Koenen, Sasha Rudenstine, Ezra Susser, Sandro Galea.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Contents; Contributors; Part 1 Introduction; 1 Life course approaches to mental illness: the emergence of a concept; Part 2 Methods in life course approaches; 2 Study designs: traditional and novel approaches to advance life course research; 3 Measurement issues in epidemiology of psychiatric disorders; 4 Analytic considerations in a life course perspective; 5 Age, birth cohort, and period effects in psychiatric disorders in the USA; Part 3 Life course approach to specific mental disorders; 6 Schizophrenia and related psychosis; 7 Bipolar disorder.

8 Applying a life course perspective to depression9 Life course epidemiology of anxiety disorders; 10 Epidemiology of post-traumatic stress disorder; 11 Life course approach to substance use; 12 The life course perspective: a framework for autism research; 13 Life course epidemiology of eating disorders; 14 Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder over the life course; 15 Conduct disorder across the life course; 16 Borderline, schizotypal, avoidant, obsessive-compulsive, and other personality disorders; Part 4 Understanding mechanisms; 17 Cognitive function over the life course.

18 Life course approaches to the genetic epidemiology of mental illness19 Impact of early environmental exposures on mental disorders across the life course; 20 Role of the social environmental over the life course in the aetiology of psychiatric disorders; 21 Social context and mental health over the life course; 22 Epigenetic influences on mental illness over the life course; 23 Adverse childhood experiences and brain development: neurobiological mechanisms linking the social environment to psychiatric disorders; 24 Social-biological interplay over the life course.

Part 5 New directions in the life course epidemiology of mental illness25 Intergenerational transmission; 26 Mental disorders and the emergence of physical disorders; Part 6 Conclusions; 27 Public health, policy, and practice: implications of life course approaches to mental illness; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W.

A Life Course Approach to Mental Disorders examines the causes and consequences of a wide-range of mental disorders throughout life, from the peri-natal period through old age.

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