Article
Specificity of familial transmission of schizophrenia psychosis spectrum and affective psychoses in the New England family study's high-risk design.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 May 2010
Goldstein Jill M, Buka Stephen L, Seidman Larry J, Tsuang Ming T
Abstract excerpt
CONTEXT: There is a long history of research on the familial transmission of schizophrenia and other psychoses. However, few studies have investigated the specificity of the transmission of schizophrenia-psychosis spectrum (SPS) disorders and affective psychoses (APs) or observed high-risk offspring into mid-adulthood. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the transmission of psychoses from parents to their offspring and...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Affective Disorders, Psychotic
- Boston
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Cohort Studies
- Cross-Sectional Studies
- Depressive Disorder, Major
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Infant
