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Pre-morbid psychopathology in schizophrenia spectrum
1University Department of Psychiatry, Kommunehospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science
|November 1, 1989
Abstract:
In a prospective, longitudinal study of high-risk offspring of schizophrenic mothers, of several dimensions of pre-morbid behaviour 'peculiarity' predicted subsequent schizophrenia or schizotypy. Peculiarity/eccentricity may represent a subtle marker of the schizophrenic genotype. 'Pre-schizophrenics', as compared with 'pre-schizotypes', were characterised by affective dyscontrol, reflected in less introverted and more disturbed behaviour.