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The British Journal of Psychiatry 139: 457-462 (1981)
© 1981 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Educational achievement, IQ and affective disorder in the adult offspring of bipolar manic-depressives

BG Waters, I Marchenko-Bouer and D Smiley

An educational history, corroborated by records where available, was obtained on 54 of the 58 adult offspring of 17 bipolar manic- depressives. The offspring were also interviewed and psychiatric status was ascertained. Primary and other affective disorder in the offspring was not associated with a lower IQ or lower ultimate educational attainment than that of the remaining offspring. There was a trend towards increased educational failure in the offspring with primary affective disorder, but they were as likely as other offspring who had failed to have resumed their education at a later date. III offspring with any form of school failure had a significantly earlier onset of their psychiatric illness, although school failure could not be shown to be a part of an early symptom complex.




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