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Psychoses in identical twins

A contribution to the study of the etiology of functional psychoses

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Conclusions

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    Identical twins are equal in inheritance.

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    The study of the incidence of mental disorders in identical twins may be an aid in the determination of causal factors, and in distinguishing hereditary from environmental factors.

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    Dementia præcox or manic-depressive psychosis rarely occurs in only one of a pair of identical twins.

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  1. Hudson river state hospital, Hudson

    Willis E. Merriman M.D. (First Assistant Physician)

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Merriman, W.E. Psychoses in identical twins. Psych Quar 7, 37–49 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01572716

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