Article
Patterns of illness in parent-child pairs both hospitalized for either schizophrenia or a major mood disorder.
Psychiatry research - 1 Oct 1991
Decina P, Mukherjee S, Lucas L, Linder J, Horwath E
Abstract excerpt
Results are reported of a blind rediagnosis of a consecutive series of parent-child pairs hospitalized with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or mood disorder. Patterns of illness in pairs meeting DSM-III-R criteria for either disorder were examined by contrasting the two generations on their respective distributions of diagnoses, and means of age at onset and severity of illness. While no case of mood disorder was...
Topics
- Adult
- Affective Disorders, Psychotic
- Bipolar Disorder
- Child of Impaired Parents
- Female
- Hospitalization
- Humans
- Male
- Phenotype
- Prognosis
- Psychiatric Status Rating Scales