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With more than 10,000 species that vary in size, use diverse habitats that extend across latitudes and altitudes, consume a wide variety of food items, differ in how they fly (or not), communicate, and reproduce, and have different life histories, birds exhibit remarkable variation in form (anatomy) and function (physiology). Our understanding of how natural selection has generated this variation as birds evolved and as different species adapted to their unique circumstances has grown considerably in recent years. In In a Class of Their Own: A Detailed Examination of Avian Forms and Functions, this variation is explained in great detail, beginning with an overview of avian evolution and continuing with information about the structure and function of the avian skeleton, muscles, and the various body systems. Other chapters focus on avian locomotion (including flight), migration, navigation, communication, energy balance and thermoregulation, and various aspects of avian reproduction, such as nests and nest building, clutch sizes, and parental care. In a Class of Their Own: A Detailed Examination of Avian Forms and Functions will be must reading for anyone, professional or non-professional, who needs or wants to learn more about birds.

Physiology. --- Anatomy. --- Ecology. --- Zoology. --- Behavior genetics. --- Animal Physiology. --- Behavioral Genetics. --- Birds

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Genomics. --- Behavior genetics. --- Genome research --- Genomes --- Molecular genetics --- Behavior genetic analysis --- Behavioral genetics --- Human behavior genetics --- Psychogenetics --- Genetics --- Psychology --- Research

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Neurogenetics --- Behavior genetics --- Genetics, Behavioral. --- Mental Disorders --- Nervous System Diseases --- genetics. --- Behavior genetics. --- Neurogenetics. --- Health and social care --- Genetics & Genomics. --- Human Behavior. --- Neurology. --- Behavioral Genetics --- Psychogenetics --- Nervous system --- Behavior genetic analysis --- Behavioral genetics --- Human behavior genetics --- Genetic aspects --- Behavior --- Sociobiology --- Genetics --- Neurosciences --- Psychology

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Adult and child psychiatric disorders, including mood disorders, psychosis, substance abuse, and dementia, represent a large source of disability in the general population. The urgency to develop new treatments that may have better efficacy and tolerance is explained by the fact that none of the treatments currently available can be considered completely satisfying. Several reasons underlie this relative failure, such as, for example, (1) lack of knowledge of the mechanisms involved, (2) heterogeneity of most psychiatric disorders (that have good inter-rater validity but weak relationship with specific neurobiological mechanisms), (3) variable tolerance that leads to poor compliance, and (4) insufficient prediction for a specific treated patient of the efficacy, side effects, and outcome associated with the prescribed treatments. Furthermore, from an economical point of view, psychiatric disorders are now the most expensive disorders to treat. The costs associated with mental illnesses, which constitute a significant percentage of the total direct health care costs, are currently estimated above $100 billion (USD), representing $1,605 per person per year in the U.S. (9% of the gross national product). Prediction of efficacy, prevention of major side effects, and selection of the most appropriate treatment should thus have major medical and economical impacts. The pharmacogenetics devoted to psychotropic drugs (psychopharmacogenetics) will help to further develop these points. The psychopharmacogenetic field represents an important area of research that is based on various specialties including clinical psychiatry, pharmacology, neurobiology and genetics. However, data issued from such relevant investigations are frequently, for clinicians as for scientists, rather obscure and/or scattered. In this book, the basic and advanced knowledge on psychiatric disorders will be provided for non-clinicians: What is schizophrenia? What are the risk factors? What are the core symptoms? How is it treated? What are the efficacy and side effects of the available treatments and their mechanisms? Are there already some psychopharmacogenetic data useful in clinical practice?

Psychopharmacology. --- Behavior genetics. --- Behavioral pharmacology --- Drugs --- Chemotherapy --- Pharmacology --- Psychotropic drugs --- Psychotropic effects --- Behavior genetic analysis --- Behavioral genetics --- Human behavior genetics --- Psychogenetics --- Genetics --- Psychology --- Neurosciences. --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system

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Behavior genetics. --- Genetics, Behavioral --- Persoonlijkheidspsychologie --- methods. --- psychofysiologische theorieën en gedragsgenetica --- psychofysiologische theorieën en gedragsgenetica. --- Methods. --- Psychofysiologische theorieën en gedragsgenetica. --- Behavior genetics --- Behavior genetic analysis --- Behavioral genetics --- Human behavior genetics --- Psychogenetics --- Genetics --- Psychology