Alison Macdonald
King's College London
9 Papers
84 Citations
Alison Macdonald is an academic researcher from King's College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Twin study & Schizophrenia. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 9 publications.
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Papers
Heritability Estimates for Psychotic Disorders: The Maudsley Twin Psychosis Series
Alastair G. Cardno,E. Jane Marshall,Bina Coid,Alison Macdonald,T Ribchester,N Davies,P. Venturi,Lisa Jones,Shôn Lewis,Pak C. Sham,Irving I. Gottesman,Anne Farmer,Peter McGuffin,A.M. Reveley,Robin M. Murray +14 more
TL;DR: A substantial genetic contribution to variance in liability was confirmed for the major diagnostic categories except Research Diagnostic Criteria depressive psychosis and unspecified functional psychosis, where familial transmission was confirmed, but the relative contribution of genetic and common environmental factors was unclear.
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Heritability Estimates for Psychotic Disorders
Alastair G. Cardno,E. Jane Marshall,Bina Coid,Alison Macdonald,T Ribchester,N Davies,P. Venturi,Lisa Jones,Pak C. Sham,Irving I. Gottesman,Anne Farmer,Peter McGuffin,A.M. Reveley,Robin M. Murray +13 more
- 01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: A substantial genetic contribution to variance in liability was confirmed for the major diagnostic categories except Research Diagnostic Criteria depressive psychosis and unspecified functional psychosis, where familial transmission was confirmed, but the relative contribution of genetic and common environmental factors was unclear.
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The development and initial validation of a telephone‐administered cognitive test battery (TACT)
TL;DR: A telephone-administered cognitive test battery (TACT) was developed by as discussed by the authors to detect small but important degrees of early decline in cognitive function, including crystallized intelligence, logical memory, visuo-spatial function, verbal fluency, and inductive reasoning.
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Reliability of a telephone‐administered cognitive test battery (TACT) between telephone and face‐to‐face administration
TL;DR: In this paper, the retest reliability of the TACT battery between telephone administration and face-to-face administration was investigated and the concurrent validity of the test components against a standard test of cognitive ability, the WAIS-RUK.
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