Evaluation of familial influences on the course and severity of schizophrenia among US and Indian cases

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 369-374

  Deshpande, Smita N ^a   Bhatia, Triptish ^a   Wood, Joel ^b   Brar, Jaspreet S ^b   Thelma, B K ^c   Ganguli, Rohan ^b   Day, Richard ^d   Gottesman, Irving I ^e   Nimgaonkar, Vishwajit L ^b  

^a DR RAM MANOHAR LOHIA HOSPITAL   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Course; Developing country; Familial; India; Schizophrenia; Severity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIBLING; UNITED STATES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIBLINGS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 3042674852     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-004-0749-1     Document Type: Article

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