Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Otto Diem and research methods for assessing the contributions of hereditary burden to mental illness risk: 1902-1906.

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After decades of methodological stasis in 19th century psychiatric genetics, when uncontrolled studies reported high rates of hereditary burden in hospitalized patients, Koller completed the first controlled study in 1895. We pick up this narrative 7 years later when the well-known Julius Wagner v. Jauregg published a biting critique of the then current psychiatric genetics' literature. In 1905, partially in...

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