[An update on the debate about the genetic or environmental nature of psychiatric disorders].
During part of the past century any reference to genetics as cause for psychiatric disorders was vetoed, favouring explanations based on the environment as pathogen. Later and as a backlash, science seemed to bet on the sufficiency of the genetic level to understand pathology. Currently, in keeping with the consolidation of the neuroscientific paradigm, a higher level of complexity has been achieved and has rendered new models, such as gene-environment interaction and correlation, which allow for a more rigorous understanding of how the human phenotype displays itself in the world. Profound transformations in the field of mental health can be foreseen as a result of the new paradigm.
Vigo
Daniel V
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Instituto de Investigaciones Farmacológicas (ININFA). vigo.daniel@gmail.com
D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000235:genetics; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000235:genetics