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Stability of Thought Disorder Index among high-risk and low-risk adoptees in the Finnish adoptive family study of schizophrenia.
European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists - 1 Jan 2005
Metsänen M, Wahlberg K-E, Saarento O, Hakko H, Tarvainen T, Koistinen P, Tienari P
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The aim of the study was to evaluate whether thought disorders are stable, trait-like features specific to subjects who have a genetic liability to schizophrenia or a psychiatric disorder. The thought disorders of adoptees genetically at high risk (HR) or low risk (LR) for schizophrenia from the Finnish adoptive family study of schizophrenia were evaluated twice at a mean interval of 11 years, using the sum of...
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