Familial rates of affective illness in Sardinia with special reference to schizoaffective disorder
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A Bocchetta1, F Bernardi, L Garau
1Department of Neurosciences B.B. Brodie University of Cagliari, Italy.
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Familial rates of psychiatric disorders were studied in southern Sardinia and showed an increase in relatives of probands with the following research diagnostic criteria (RDC) diagnoses: normal, unipolar depression, schizoaffective depressive, schizoaffective bipolar, bipolar with mania and bipolar with hypomania. A significantly higher risk for bipolar schizoaffective disorder was observed in relatives of bipolar schizoaffectives compared with relatives of normal probands.