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From Dualism to Psychobiological Interaction A Comment on the Study by Tienari and his Co-workers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Johannes Lehtonen
Johannes Lehtonen*
Affiliation:
University of Kuopio, PO Box 1627, SF-70210 Kuopio, Finland
*
Supported by a grant for 1992–93 from the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation, Helsinki, Finland.
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Although the prevailing conception of the aetiopathogenesis of schizophrenia assumes the combined effect of a biological predisposition and of environmental stress, genetic factors have recently received more attention than environmental ones. Rather than concentrating on only one of these, Professor Tienari and his team have directed their research efforts to clarifying the joint effects of both. For that purpose, they have gathered a comprehensive body of material, starting from 19 447 schizophrenic women with 291 children given away for adoption; of the latter, 155 index children, with their biological and adoptive parents, were ultimately included in their study. A group of 185 control children was collected for comparison, and their parents (adoptive and biological) were also investigated.

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Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 164 , Issue S23: Integrated Approach to Schizophrenia , April 1994 , pp. 27 - 28
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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