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Cognitive performance in presumed obligate carriers for psychosis.
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science - 1 Sept 2005
Toulopoulou Timothea, Mapua-Filbey Francesca, Quraishi Seema, Kravariti Eugenia, Morris Robin G, McDonald Colm, Walshe Muriel, Bramon Elvira, Murray Robin M
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We report cognitive performance of a group of individuals who are likely to have transmitted liability to psychosis to their offspring. Out of 230 relatives of patients with psychosis, 27 met our criteria for a presumed obligate carrier, that is a non-psychotic individual who had a parent or a sibling as well as an offspring with psychosis. The presumed obligate carriers showed impairments in verbal memory and in...
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