Psychiatric disorders in foster home reared children of schizophrenic mothers.

Autor: Heston, Leonard L., Heston, L L
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Zdroj: British Journal of Psychiatry; Aug66, Vol. 112 Issue 489, p819-825, 7p, 2 Charts
Abstrakt: The article cites a study that tested the genetic contribution to schizophrenia in Oregon. Researchers separated the effects of an environment made schizophrenogenic by the ambivalence and thinking disorder of a schizophrenic parent from the effects of genes from such a parent. A group of adults born to schizophrenic mothers where mother and child were separated after the first two postpartum weeks were compared to a group of control subjects. Results of the study supported a genetic etiology of schizophrenia, which was found only in the offspring of schizophrenic mothers.
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