PART I. Psychiatric epidemiology, then and now. 1. Evelyn J. Bromet and Ezra Susser: The burden of mental illness 2. Ezra Susser and Alfredo Morabia: The arc of epidemiology 3. Ezra Susser, Sharon Schwartz, Alfredo Morabia and Evelyn J. Bromet: Searching for the causes of mental disorders PART II.
RISK FACTORS AS CAUSES OF MENTAL DISORDERS. 4. Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser: What is a cause? 5. Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser: Detecting causes 6. Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser: Study designs 7. Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser: Relationship among causes 8. Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz: Measures of association PART III. COHORT DESIGNS IN PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY.
9. Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz: Prototypical cohort study 10. Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz: Diversity of cohort studies 11. Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz: Casual inference: a thought experiment 12. Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz: Confounding: What it is and what can be done 13. Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz: Unequal attrition under different types of follow-up 14. Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz: Differential misclassification PART IV. CASE CONTROL DESIGNS IN PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY.
15. Alfredo Morabia, Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser: Logic of the case control design 16. Evelyn J. Bromet, Alredo Morabia, Nancy Sohler and Ezra Susser: Applications of the case control study 17. Sharon Schwartz, Alfredo Morabia and Ezra Susser: Choosing controls 18. Alfredo Morabia, Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser: Comparability and the case control study PART V. CASE CONTROL DESIGNS IN BIOLOGIC PSYCHIATRY. 19.
Biologic studies in psychiatry 20. Evelyn J. Bromet, Ezra Susser, Gary A. Heiman and Jack M. Gorman: Choosing cases in biologic psychiatry 21. Sharon Schwartz, Ezra Susser and Jack M. Gorman: Choosing controls in biologic psychiatry PART VI. ANALYZING THE DATA.
22. Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahanr: Gauging associations 23. Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan: Establishing associations 24. Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan: Planning studies: power and sample size 25. Melissa D.
Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan: Statistical adjustment 26. Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan: Survival analysis 27. Alfredo Morabia and Michaeline Bresnahan: Analysis of Interaction PART VII. THE SEARCH FOR GENETIC CAUSES OF MENTAL DISORDERS. 28. Ezra Susser, Habibul Ahsan and Mary-Claire King: Integrating epidemiology with genetics 29. Habibul Ahsan, Gary A.
Heiman, Mary-Claire King and Ezra Susser: Genetic association studies 30. Regina Zimmerman, Habibul Ahsan, Mary-Claire King, and Ezra Susser: Modern family history studies 31. Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser: Twin studies of heritability 32. Habibul Ahsan, Susan E. Hodge, Gary A. Heiman and Ezra Susser: Genetic linkage studies 33. Mary-Claire King, Habibul Ahsan and Ezra Susser: Designs for the genomic era PART VIII. COMPLEX CASUAL RELATIONSHIPS.
34. Ezra Susser, Sharon Schwartz and Alfredo Morabia: Eco-epidemiology 35. Sharon Schwartz, Ana V. Diez Roux and Ezra Susser: Casual explanation within a risk factor framework 36. Sharon Schwartz, Ana V. Diez and Ezra Susser: Casual explanation outside the black box 37. Sharon Schwartz, Ana V. Diez Roux and Ezra Susser: Dependent and dynamic processes Appendix I.
Our approach to epidemiologic concepts and methods. Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser: Appendix II.(Appendix to Chapter 13) Application of survival analysis to PDSE data. Michaeline Bresnahan and Ezra Susser: Glossary.