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Powerpoint slides and handouts

1) Somatization
Arthur Barsky's invited lecture at the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine 11/06 "was meant to place the problem of somatization in the broader context of symptom reporting in the general population and to suggest the progression that occurs in some individuals from 'normal' to 'abnormal' somatization."
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2) Psychiatric Aspects of Transplantation
(The psychiatric aspects of human organ transplantation provide some of the most complex and fascinating dilemmas for the psychiatrist working with transplant teams. Curley Bonds, MD, associate professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Drew University School of Medicine, Los Angeles, presented this introduction to Transplant Psychiatry in 2007 to the Psychosomatic Medicine Interest Group at UCLA.

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Lecturecasts (video/audio)

1) Patricia R. Barchas Award Lecture by John T. Cacioppo Video

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2) Alvin P. Shapiro Award Lecture by Timothy Quill, MD Video
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1) March 2000 debate on the Efficacy of Psychosocial Interventions for Organic Disease
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Psychosocial Interventions Can
Improve Clinical Outcomes in Organic Disease

Drs. Marcia Angell & Arnold Relman vs Drs. Neil Schneiderman & Redford Williams

Discussant: Dr. George Lundberg

Chair: Dr. Jerry Markovitz

Introduction - Debate format, speaker introductions, and remarks by the DebateChair

Dr. Jerry Markovitz - (9:55)

Opening Remarks of Speakers

Pro Side

Dr. Redford Williams (11:54)
Dr. Neil Shneiderman (9:58)

Con Side

Dr. Arnold Relman (13:47)
Dr. Marcia Angell (13:12)

Speakers Question & Answer Session - (14:58)

Final Arguments

Pro Side

Dr. Redford Williams (2:53)
Dr. Neil Shneiderman (7:23)

Con Side

Dr. Arnold Relman (5:15)
Dr. Marcia Angell
(9:13)

Closing

Dr. George Lundberg (17:37)

Audience Question & Answer Session (10:00)

Dr. Jerry Markovitz (1:25)

 

Reading lists and teaching syllabi

1) Biometrical Genetics: “Introductory” books
Plomin, R., Defries, J.C., McClearn, G.E., McGuffin, P. (2000). Behavioral Genetics, 4th Edition. W H Freeman & Co.
Daniel L. Hartl (2002) A Primer of Population Genetics (3rd Ed.) Sinauer Associates, Inc
Introduction to population genetics. For undergraduates, graduates, and professional researchers. Emphasis is on the explanation of the equations rather than the derivation.
Ott J (1999) Analysis of Human Genetic Linkage (3rd Ed) Johns Hopkins University Press
Falconer, S. & Mackay, T. (1996) Introduction to Quantitative Genetics (4th Ed.) Addison-Wesley Pub Co
Lynch, M. & Walsh, B. (1998) Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits Sinauer Associates, Inc
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 2) Molecular Genetics:
Strachan, T., Read, A. (2003). Human Molecular Genetics, 3rd Edition. Garland Pub

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Links to other relevant sites

1) http://statgen.iop.kcl.ac.uk/bgim/
The Behavioural Genetics Interactive Modules are a series of freely-available interactive on-line resources and computer programs by Shaun Purcell. They are designed to accompany Statistical Methods in Quantitative Genetics, the appendix to the 4th edition of Behavioral Genetics by Robert Plomin, John DeFries, Gerald McClearn & Peter McGuffin (New York: Worth Publishers, 2001)
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