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An Example of Similar Mental Disorder in Identical Twins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Harold Palmer*
Affiliation:
Woodside Hospital, London, N.10

Extract

The following two case-records furnish an interesting example of similar mental illness occurring in identical twins, in which, however, in the one case the illness had come on endogenously, whereas in the other there was an apparent precipitating cause. Their age when seen was 25 years.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1946 

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