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• The need to question your own research
• Epidemiological psychiatry defined - the study of Romanian adoptees
• Autism and the MMR vaccine
• Maternal deprivation - relationships and attachments
• Lost relationships - coping, resilience and genetic factors
• Autism - a brain disorder with important genetic factors
• Autism - tests for diagnosis and measurement reveal a wider view of the disorder
• Autism - degrees of severity
• Genes and behaviour
• How genes might play a part in schizophrenia and autism
• Genes and environments - anti-social mothers, adoptive parents and child behaviour
• Anti-social behaviour - why some people develop it
• Anti-social behaviour - why it matters
• Anti-social behaviour - the role played by genes that most of us have
• Anti-social behaviour - the difference between corporal punishment and maltreatment
• The Camberwell Interview - assessing families' influence on risks for children's behaviour
• Do schools influence behavioural and scholastic problems?
• Depression in childhood and what happens in adult life
• Policy and punishment - the case of young people
• What is science?