Family History Study of Major Psychiatric Disorders and Syndromes

Toshinori Kitamura, Noboru Takazawa and Junko Moridaira
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Toshinori Kitamura: Division of Psychogeriatrics, National Institute of Mental Health, 1-7-3, Konodai, Ichikawa, Chiba 272, Japan
Noboru Takazawa: Department of Psychiatry, Teikyo University, School of Medicine, 2-11-1, Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173, Japan
Junko Moridaira: Department of Psychiatry, Teikyo University, School of Medicine, 2-11-1, Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173, Japan

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1989, vol. 35, issue 4, 333-342

Abstract: The family history of major psychiatric disorders was examined among relatives of 193 in-patients fulfilling the Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) for Schizophrenia, Unspecified Functional Psychoses, Schizoaffective Disorder, Manic Disorder or Major Depressive Disorder. The morbid risk (MR) for schizophrenia was greater among the relatives of probands with non-affective psychoses whereas the MR for mania was greater among the relatives of probands with affective bipolar disorder. When major psychiatric syndromes were examined, only manic syndrome showed familial aggregation.

Date: 1989
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