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The Prognostic Importance of Genetic Factors in Functional Psychoses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Christian Astrup*
Affiliation:
Gaustad Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Extract

For a series of 972 first admissions of functional psychoses admitted to Gaustad Hospital between 1938 and 1950 a long-term clinical follow-up has been carried out. The prognostic importance of clinical, social and genetic factors was analysed in great detail (1).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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