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Some Observations on the Ætiology of Dementia Præcox

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

W. S. Jagoe Shaw*
Affiliation:
Burma Mental Hospital, and Central Mental Hospital, Poona, India

Extract

It is generally admitted that hereditary predisposition plays an important part in the development of dementia præcox (or schizophrenia), and that a family history of mental illness is traceable in about 60% of cases.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1930 

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