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Endophenotypes, dimensions, risks: is psychosis analogous to common inherited medical illnesses?
Clinical EEG and neuroscience - 1 Apr 2008
Pearlson Godfrey D, Folley Bradley S
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Psychiatric illnesses are perceived as fundamentally different from common medical disorders, a view arising from the mind-body problem and difficulties relating the brain's emergent properties to its physiological substrates. However, schizophrenia and many common medical illnesses are heritable and result from the influence of both genetic and environmental sources. Unlike illnesses such as Huntington's...
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