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Paranoid states of middle life:FAMILIAL OCCURRENCE AND RELATIONSHIP TO SCHIZOPHRENIA
Author(s) -
Watt J. A. G.,
Hall D. J.,
Olley P. C.,
Hunter D.,
Gardiner A. Quentin
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1980.tb00880.x
Subject(s) - paranoid schizophrenia , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , proband , paranoid disorders , psychiatry , psychology , population , medicine , paranoia , psychosis , environmental health , biochemistry , chemistry , mutation , gene
Paranoid states beginning in middle life were selected from a case register. A search among the sibs of those probands uncovered no paranoid states and schizophrenia was no more common than in the general population. The implications for the asteiology of paranoid states and for the relationship between these and schizophrenia are discussed.