A Longitudinal Study of Premorbid IQ Score and Risk of Developing Schizophrenia,Bipolar Disorder, Severe Depression, and Other Nonaffective Psychoses
Author(s) -
Stanley Zammit,
Peter Allebeck,
Anthony S. David,
Christina Dalman,
Tomas Hemmingsson,
Ingrid E. Lundberg,
Glyn Lewis
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
archives of general psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3636
pISSN - 0003-990X
DOI - 10.1001/archpsyc.61.4.354
Subject(s) - bipolar disorder , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , depression (economics) , psychology , population , clinical psychology , confounding , medicine , cognition , environmental health , economics , macroeconomics
Longitudinal studies indicate that a lower IQ score increases risk of schizophrenia. Preliminary evidence suggests there is no such effect for nonpsychotic bipolar disorder. To our knowledge, there are no prior population-based, longitudinal studies of premorbid IQ score and risk of developing severe depression requiring hospital admission.
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