Article
A family study of schizotypal disorder.
Schizophrenia bulletin - 1 Jan 1995
Battaglia M, Bernardeschi L, Franchini L, Bellodi L, Smeraldi E
Abstract excerpt
Direct, blind interviews were used to study the risk for and prevalence of DSM-III-R Axis I and II disorders in 93 first-degree relatives of outpatients with schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) and outpatients with other personality disorders. Risks for SPD (at a slightly loosened diagnostic threshold) and schizoid personality disorder were significantly higher in the families of probands with SPD....
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Ambulatory Care
- Anxiety Disorders
- Depressive Disorder
- Female
- Gene Expression
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Personality Assessment
- Phenotype