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Ambulatory assessment as a means of longitudinal phenotypes characterization in psychiatric disorders
- Source :
- Neuroscience Research. 102:13-21
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- Ambulatory Assessment (AA) comprises the use of in-field methods to assess individuals’ behavior, physiology, and the experience as they unfold in naturalistic settings. We propose that AA is favorable for the investigation of gene–environment interactions and for the search for endophenotypes, being able to assess the experienced environment and to track basic regulatory processes, such as stress reactivity, affective instability, and reward experience, which are potential common factors that underlie psychiatric disorders. In this article, we (a) first describe briefly the rationale of AA and summarize the key advantages of the approach, (b) highlight within-subject regulatory processes, such as stress reactivity, affective instability, and reward experience, (c) describe studies that used AA to examine genetic influences in psychiatric disorders, and (d) briefly review longitudinal studies that have investigated phenotypes of psychiatric disorders. The reported studies yielded promising, although sometimes inconclusive evidence for genetic effects on endophenotypes of psychiatric disorders. Moreover, most studies were twin or family studies, especially in stress-sensitivity research; thus, it is unclear which specific single nucleotide polymorphisms contribute to the endophenotypes of psychiatric disorders. We do hope that within-subject regulatory processes will enable us to clarify the fundamental psychological dimensions that cut across traditional disorders and link them to their genetic underpinnings.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Experience sampling method
Mood Disorders
Mental Disorders
General Neuroscience
Monitoring, Ambulatory
General Medicine
Phenotype
030227 psychiatry
03 medical and health sciences
Family studies
0302 clinical medicine
Psychotic Disorders
Endophenotype
medicine
Humans
Gene-Environment Interaction
Stress reactivity
Psychiatry
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Psychiatric genetics
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01680102
- Volume :
- 102
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neuroscience Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8dcb633ff8d33df2a0ca8b3cac3f826a