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Premorbid childhood ocular alignment abnormalities and adult schizophrenia-spectrum disorder.
Schizophrenia research - 31 Jan 2006
Schiffman Jason, Maeda Justin A, Hayashi Kentaro, Michelsen Niels, Sorensen Holger J, Ekstrom Morton, Abe Kylie A, Chronicle Edward P, Mednick Sarnoff A
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This study examined the relation between childhood ocular alignment deficits and adult psychiatric outcomes among children at high-risk for schizophrenia and controls. A sample of 265 Danish children was administered a standardized eye exam assessing strabismus and related ocular alignment deficits. All children whose mothers or fathers had a psychiatric diagnosis of schizophrenia comprised the first group...
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