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Neuropsychological functioning in adolescents and young adults at genetic risk for schizophrenia and affective psychoses: results from the Harvard and Hillside Adolescent High Risk Studies.
Schizophrenia bulletin - 1 Jul 2006
Seidman Larry J, Giuliano Anthony J, Smith Christopher W, Stone William S, Glatt Stephen J, Meyer Eric, Faraone Stephen V, Tsuang Ming T, Cornblatt Barbara
Abstract excerpt
Siblings and offspring of persons with schizophrenia carry elevated genetic risk for the illness and manifest attentional and memory impairments. Because less is known about other neuropsychological functions and their specificity in adolescents, we conducted a genetic high-risk (HR) study of schizophrenia (HR-SCZ) and affective psychosis (HR-AFF). Participants (ages 12-25) were from the Harvard Adolescent...
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