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A Study on Serum Copper Level in 20 Acute Schizophrenics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

E. L. Edelstein
Affiliation:
From the Psychiatric Hospital “Talbieh”, affiliated to the Medical School, Hebrew University and Hadassah, Jerusalem
D. Krassilowsky
Affiliation:
From the Psychiatric Hospital “Talbieh”, affiliated to the Medical School, Hebrew University and Hadassah, Jerusalem
J. Gdalia
Affiliation:
From the Department of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem

Extract

Blood copper had been known to be increased in pregnancy, chronic infections and neoplasms. Since the publication of Ullrich in 1942 (9), who found an increased copper level in the blood of schizophrenics, the hypercupraemia has been recognized as possibly significant and pathognomonic in this disease. Therefore during the following years a few investigators studied this aspect and also tried to prove the implications of this fact.

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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