Neglect and hereditary risk: Their relative contribution to schizophrenia with negative symptomatology.

CONCLUSION: Our central finding is that risk for negative symptoms of schizophrenia are elevated by childhood neglect combined with a history of serious mental illness within the family. This is the only report to combine schizophrenic symptoms, familial risk and childhood neglect to date. Implications for primary prevention and treatment are discussed. PMID: 26842730 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The International Journal of Social Psychiatry - February 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Gallagher BJ, Jones BJ Tags: Int J Soc Psychiatry Source Type: research