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Familial predisposition for psychiatric disorder: comparison of subjects treated for cannabis-induced psychosis and schizophrenia.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Nov 2008
Arendt Mikkel, Mortensen Preben B, Rosenberg Raben, Pedersen Carsten B, Waltoft Berit L
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CONTEXT: Cannabis-induced psychosis is considered a distinct clinical entity in the existing psychiatric diagnostic systems. However, the validity of the diagnosis is uncertain. OBJECTIVES: To establish rate ratios of developing cannabis-induced psychosis associated with predisposition to psychosis and other psychiatric disorders in a first-degree relative and to compare them with the corresponding rate ratios...
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