Abstract

While the lifetime risk in the general population is just below 1%, it is 6.5% infirst-degree relatives of patients [1] and it rises to more than 40% in monozygotic twins of affected people. Two twin studies on psychotic illnesses could be found on searching the Indian Journal of Psychiatry, one is a case report of mania in twins [4] and the other one is a case report of Folie a deux in identical twin sisters.

Details

Title
Schizophrenia in identical twins
Author
Narayan, Choudhary; Shikha, Deep; Shekhar, Shivendra
Publication year
2015
Publication date
Jul-Sep 2015
Publisher
Medknow Publications & Media Pvt. Ltd.
ISSN
00195545
e-ISSN
19983794
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1724572809
Copyright
Copyright Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd Jul-Sep 2015