[Comparative clinico-genealogical analysis of slowly progressive schizophrenia and hysterical-type psychopathy]

A genetic correlational analysis of two variants of slowly progressive schizophrenia (SPS) (hysterical schizophrenia--70 families, paranoid schizophrenia--40 families) and hysterical psychopathy (30 families) has demonstrated that there is a definite genetic heterogeneity between nosologically heterogeneous hysterical manifestations in SPS and constitutional psychopathy which reflects the influence of the general constitutional "axis" in systems of genetic determination of these forms. At the same time no significant genetic correlations (according to hysterical predisposition) have been found between the above forms and the paranoid variant of SPS. The results corroborate the hypothesis about a multiaxial structure of hereditary predisposition in SPS.