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Cognitive vulnerability to bipolar disorder in offspring of parents with bipolar disorder.
The British journal of clinical psychology - 1 Nov 2014
Pavlickova Hana, Turnbull Oliver, Bentall Richard P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Bipolar disorder is a highly heritable illness, with a positive family history robustly predictive of its onset. It follows that studying biological children of parents with bipolar disorder may provide information about developmental pathways to the disorder. Moreover, such studies may serve as a useful test of theories that attribute a causal role in the development of mood disorders to...
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