Family history and obstetric complications in deficit and non-deficit schizophrenia: preliminary results
- 1 August 1998
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in European Psychiatry
- Vol. 13 (5), 270-272
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(98)80034-5
Abstract
SummaryThe aim of this study was to test that deficit (D) schizophrenic patients as defined by Carpenter et al had a higher prevalence of family history of schizophrenia but less obstetric complications than non-deficit (ND) patients. A lower rate of obstetric complications but an excess of schizophrenic and a higher rate of alcoholism family antecedents in 18 D patients compared to 23 ND patients were found. These results could suggest that there is a different weight of genetic and early environmental factors in D and ND patients.Keywords
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