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A family interview study of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and major mood disorder: updated findings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

HG Pope Jr  and
D Yurgelun-Todd
HG Pope Jr
Affiliation:
Mailman Research Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
D Yurgelun-Todd
Affiliation:
Mailman Research Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Summary

Data from an ongoing family interview study suggest that schizoaffective probands - including even those with a very brief history of a major depressive or manic syndrome - display a high prevalence of major mood disorders in their first-degree relatives. In this respect, schizoaffective probands proved significantly different from ‘pure’ schizophrenic probands, but not significantly different from bipolar probands.

Keywords

schizophreniaschizoaffective disordermajor mood disorderfamily interview study
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Original article
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , 1993 , pp. 1 - 5
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Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1993

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