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The Medical Research Council (MRC) Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre is an interdisciplinary centre in London, England established in 1994.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/depts/mrc/about/history/index.aspx )〕 It is based in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London. The mission of the centre is "to undertake research on the impact and interplay between genetic, environmental and developmental factors, and their roles in the causal processes underlying the origins and course of multifactorial mental disorders", "to consider the implications for clinical practice and public health policy", and "to train others in the methodologies involved".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/depts/mrc/about/index.aspx )〕 ==History== The MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre was founded in 1994 by the Medical Research Council, in partnership with the Institute of Psychiatry (now a school of King’s College London).〔 The research in social, genetic and developmental psychiatry have already existed at the Institute of Psychiatry since its establishment in 1948. However, the streams of research were not integrated and there have even been times when genetic researchers and social psychiatrists were in a state of hostility.〔 The intellectual warfare between nature and nurture reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s. Aubrey Lewis, who was the first Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute and the director of the MRC Social Psychiatry Research Unit (first MRC unit at the Institute), noticed that social psychiatry was a broad field that included both biological substrate of disorders and social causes. Eliot Slater, the ‘founding father’ of psychiatric genetics in the United Kingdom,〔 was encouraged by Lewis to study genetics in 1930s. In 1959, Slater established another MRC unit at the Institute (MRC Psychiatric Genetics Unit), but the unit was closed in 1969 on Slater’s retirement. In 1984, MRC Child Psychiatry Unit was established at the Institute of Psychiatry by Michael Rutter, who was a member in the MRC Social Psychiatry Research Unit led by Lewis. The unit brought together experts in many overlapping fields, and the mix proved highly successful as the unit had a major impact on child psychiatric research throughout the world.〔 The MRC Social Psychiatry Research Unit was closed in 1993. The MRC and the Institute found that there was a need for refocusing and reintegration with other strands of research including psychiatric genetics and disorders of adult life.〔 Rutter and David Goldberg discussed with the MRC about the establishment of an interdisciplinary research centre that could comprehensively study the interplay of nature and nurture in the development of psychiatric disorders. In 1994, MRC SGDP Centre was established in Denmark Hill, and Rutter was appointed as the first Director of the centre.〔 The SGDP Centre has moved into its new purpose-built building in 2002. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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