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Biologic factors in schizotypal personal disorders
Author(s) -
Siever Larry J.
Publication year - 1994
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.1600-0447.1994.tb05890.x
Subject(s) - schizotypal personality disorder , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , dopaminergic , psychology , psychosis , personality , personality disorders , neuroscience , psychiatry , clinical psychology , dopamine , medicine , social psychology
New studies of the boundaries of schizophrenia suggest that schizotypal personality disorder is biologically and genetically related to schizophrenia with alterations in brain structure/function related to deficit‐like symptoms and increased dopaminergic function to psychotic‐like symptoms.