Föreläsningar och seminarier General intelligence and psychopathology, and specific risk factors

2019-10-08 16:00 Add to iCal
KIND, CAP Research Center, Gävlegatan 22B, floor 8, Conference room: Leo

Erik Pettersson, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet

Abstract:

First, I will first argue that the general factors of intelligence and psychopathology predict relevant outcomes equally well. Given that the general factor of intelligence has offered both clinical and research utility over the past century, it might do so for the psychiatric domain as well. Second, I will argue that isolating the general factor of psychopathology allows