Author(s): Steven G. Vandenberg (ed.)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkin Press
Year: 1968
Language: English
Pages: 352
Tags: genetics, twin studies, genetic syndromes, heritability, genetic correlations, schizophrenia, Louisville Twin Study, equal environment assumption, adoption study, separated identical twins, WAIS IQ test, taste acuity, Down’s syndrome, intelligence, inbred strains, autonomic responses, factor analysis
Preface ............................................................ v
Part I. Genetic Syndromes
Introduction ....................................................... xi
Chapter 1. An Evolutionary Framework for Behavioral Research
Daniel G. Freedman .................................. 1
Chapter 2. Studies of Behavior in Genetically Defined Syndromes in Man
V. Elving Anderson and Felicia Siegel ......................... 7
Chapter 3. Psychological Test Patterns in Down’s Syndrome
Harvey F. Dingman ............................. .. . 19
Chapter 4. Cognitive Deficits in Turner’s Syndrome
John Money ......................................... 27
Chapter 5. Physiological and Pathological Correlates of Differences in Taste Acuity
Arnold R. Kaplan .................................... 31
Chapter 6. In Pursuit of the Schizophrenic Genotype
Irving L. Gottesman and James Shields .................. 67
Chapter 7. The Sibships of Schizophrenics
L. Erlenmeyer-Kimling ............................... 105
Chapter 8. Clinical Variability in Schizophrenic Twin Partners
Einar Kringlen ...................................... 127
Chapter 9. The NIMH Study of a Series of Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Schizophrenia
William Pollin, james R. Stabenau, Axel Hoffer, Loren R. Mosher, and Barbara Spillman ......................... 137
Part 11. Twin Studies
Introduction ...................................................... 151
Chapter 10. The Louisville Twin Study
Steven G. Vandenberg, Richard E. Stafford, and Anne M. Brown .............................................. 153
Chapter 11. Environmental Bias in Twin Studies
Sandra Scarr ......................................... 205
Chapter 12. Further Evidence of the Relation between Age of Separation and Similarity in IQ among Pairs of Separated Identical Twins
Steven G. Vandenberg and Ronald C. Johnson .......... 215
Chapter 13. Hereditary Components in the Performance of Twins on the WAIS
]. Bradford Block .................................... 221
