Monday, March 02, 2009

March PsychiatryOnline Book-of-the-Month

The March Book-of-the-Month is Psychiatric Genetics: Applications in Clinical Practice edited by Jordan W. Smoller, Beth Rosen Sheidley and Ming T. Tsuang.

This book is the first to focus on clinical applications of genetics in psychiatry. It covers issues involved in genetic counseling, the interpretation of familial and genetic information for clinical use, information regarding risks associated with specific psychiatric disorders, risk/benefit considerations related to medication use during pregnancy, and the ethical and social implications of psychiatric genetic knowledge and research—including the prospects for genetic testing. This volume is addressed to practitioners.

The link to the PDF can be found on the PsychiatryOnline home page.