‘Pfropfschizophrenie’ revisited
| Autor: | Eve C. Johnstone, David G. C. Owens, Gillian A. Doody, Walter J. Muir, T. L. Sanderson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Male Mental Health Services medicine.medical_specialty Psychosis Substance-Related Disorders Intelligence 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Age of Onset Family history Psychiatry Episodic memory Chromosome Aberrations Epilepsy Learning Disabilities medicine.disease 030227 psychiatry Hospitalization Developmental disorder Alcoholism Psychiatry and Mental health Schizophrenia Karyotyping Learning disability Female Schizophrenic Psychology Crime Age of onset medicine.symptom Psychology Self-Injurious Behavior Psychopathology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | British Journal of Psychiatry. 173:145-153 |
| ISSN: | 1472-1465 0007-1250 |
| DOI: | 10.1192/bjp.173.2.145 |
| Popis: | BackgroundIt is reported that people with mild learning disability have a higher point prevalence of schizophrenia than the normal population, the reasons for which are unclear.MethodThirty-nine subjects with mild learning disability and schizophrenia, 34 control subjects with schizophrenia and 28 control subjects with mild learning disability were seen. Interviews with relatives and carers were also conducted. Assessments were made of clinical variables, psychopathology, neurological ‘soft'signs, IQ, memory and family history. Blood was taken for karyotypic analysis from comorbid subjects.ResultsThe comorbid group had more negative symptoms, episodic memory deficits, soft neurological signs, epilepsy and receive more community supports than control subjects with schizophrenia. Comorbid subjects had a tendency to belong to multiply affected families and show high rates of chromosomal variants on routine karyotypic testing.ConclusionsFuture work on the generality of schizophrenia should include people with premorbid learning disability, as a discrete subtype from whom valuable genetic aetiological clues may be obtained. |
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