The burden of mental illness / Evelyn J. Bromet and Ezra Susser — The arc of epidemiology / Ezra Susser and Alfredo Morabia — Searching for the causes of mental disorders / Ezra Susser … [et al.] — What is a cause? / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser — Detecting causes / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser — Study designs / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser — Relationships among causes / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser — Measures of association / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz — Prototypical cohort study / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz — Diversity of cohort studies / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz — Causal inference: a thought experiment / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz — Confounding: what it is and what can be done / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz — Unequal attrition under different types of follow-up / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz –; Differential misclassification / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz — Logic of the case control design / Alfredo Morabia, Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser — Applications of the case control study / Evelyn J. Bromet … [et al.] — Choosing controls / Sharon Schwartz, Alfredo Morabia and Ezra Susser — Comparability and the case control study / Alfredo Morabia, Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser — Biologic studies in psychiatry / Jack M. Gorman and Ezra Susser — Choosing cases in biologic psychiatry / Evelyn J. Bromet … [et al.] — Choosing controls in biologic psychiatry / Sharon Schwartz, Ezra Susser and Jack M. Gorman — Gauging the precision of measures of association / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan — Using significance tests in establishing associations / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan — Planning studies: estimating power and sample size / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan — Adjustment for covariates / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan — Event time analysis / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan — Assessing heterogeneity of effects / Alfredo Morabia and Michaeline Bresnahan — Integrating epidemiology with genetics / Mary-Claire King, Habibul Ahsan and Ezra Susser — Genetic association studies / Habibul Ahsan, Gary A. Heiman, and Ezra Susser — Modern family history studies / Regina Zimmerman, Habibul Ahsan, and Ezra Susser –; Twin studies of heritability / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser — Genetic linkage studies / Susan E. Hodge … [et al.] — Designs for the genomic era / Mary-Claire King, Habibul Ahsan and Ezra Susser — Eco-epidemiology / Ezra Susser, Sharon Schwartz and Alfredo Morabia — Causal explanation within a risk factor framework / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser — Causal explanation outside the black box / Sharon Schwartz, Ana V. Diez Roux and Ezra Susser — Dependent and dynamic processes / Sharon Schwartz, Ana V. Diez Roux and Ezra Susser.