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Communication disturbances and family psychiatric history in parents of schizophrenic patients.
The Journal of nervous and mental disease - 1 Dec 1998
Docherty N M, Rhinewine J P, Labhart R P, Gordinier S W
Abstract excerpt
Parents of schizophrenic patients have demonstrated subtle disturbances of thought, language, and communication. The etiologic relevance of these disturbances is not clear. This study assessed levels of referential communication disturbance in the "natural speech" of schizophrenic patients, nonschizophrenic parents of patients, and control subjects matched to the patients' parents and tested for associations of...
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