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A Family Study of Two Subgroups of Schizoaffective Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Mario Maj
Mario Maj*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, First Medical School, University of Naples, Piazza Miraglia 2, I-80138 Napoli, Italy
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Abstract

A family study was carried out in two groups of patients fulfilling RDC for schizoaffective disorder: in one, a full affective and a full schizophrenic syndrome were simultaneously present; in the other, affective and schizophrenic features appeared within a polymorphic and rapidly changing clinical picture, with depersonalisation/derealisation and/or confusion. In the first-degree relatives of patients of the former group, the risk of major psychiatric disorders was not significantly different from that of relatives of schizophrenics, whereas in the first-degree relatives of patients of the latter group a low risk for both schizophrenia and major affective disorders, and a relatively high risk for schizoaffective disorders, were observed.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 154 , Issue 5 , May 1989 , pp. 640 - 643
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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