Neurobiologic Antecedents of Schizophrenia in Children: Evidence for an Inherited, Congenital Neurointegrative Defect

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 1977, Pages 1297-1313

  Fish, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; COGNITION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; LABOR COMPLICATIONS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RISK; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIA, CHILDHOOD; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0017745689     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1977.01770230039002     Document Type: Article

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