Familial Overlap between Bipolar Disorder and Psychotic Symptoms in a Canadian Cohort
Author(s) -
Richard Rende,
Sheilagh Hodgins,
Roberta M. Palmour,
Brigitte Faucher,
Jean-François Allaire
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the canadian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.68
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1497-0015
pISSN - 0706-7437
DOI - 10.1177/070674370505000401
Subject(s) - proband , bipolar disorder , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychosis , family aggregation , psychiatry , etiology , psychology , cohort , clinical psychology , medicine , disease , mood , genetics , mutation , gene , biology
Although they were once considered separate nosologic entities, there is current interest in the etiologic overlap between bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia. A critical issue concerns the familial basis of the overlap, specifically, the possibility of a distinct familial subtype of BD with psychotic features.
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