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Monozygotic Twins with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Suck Won Kim ,
Maurice W. Dysken  and
Mark D. Kline
Suck Won Kim*
Affiliation:
Hennepin County Medical Center, and University of Minnesota
Maurice W. Dysken
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Mark D. Kline
Affiliation:
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
*
∗Department of Psychiatry, Hennepin County Medical Center, 701 Park Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415, USA
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Abstract

A mirror-image pair of monozygotic twins concordant for obsessional–compulsive disorder had remarkably similar clinical symptoms, and brain electrical activity mapping showed slower alpha and more theta activity than normal for their age.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 156 , Issue 3 , March 1990 , pp. 435 - 438
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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