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Schizophrenia: A Comparative Study of Patients with and Without Family History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Miron Baron
Affiliation:
Division of Psychogenetics
Rhoda Gruen
Affiliation:
New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 West 168th Street, New York, N. Y. 10032
Lauren Asnis
Affiliation:
New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 West 168th Street, New York, N. Y. 10032

Summary

To test the hypothesis that schizophrenia can be differentiated on the basis of family history, the authors compared two matched samples of 20 patients each, distinguished by the presence or absence of family history of schizophrenia. Family history was not associated with either onset characteristics, symptom picture, phenomenological subtypes of schizophrenia, prognostic indicators or global assessment score for psychosocial functioning.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1982 

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