Iranian Journal of Public Health (Sep 1979)

GENETIC STUDY OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS

  • D.D. Farhud

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 3

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Genetic studies were carried out on a total of 196 psychiatric patients, hospitalized in Sorkhe Hesar, Roozbeh, Cherazi and Chaharom Aban hospitals. Out of all the patients studied, 74 were Schizophrenic, 30 Manic-Depressive, 47 Depressive (Neurotic), 12, Hysteric, 9 Epileptic and the remainder had different psychiatric diseases and conditions such as: anxiety and Phobia, scrupulousness mental retardation, sexual deviations, personality disorders and addiction. The schizophrenic group of patients had a strikingly heptomorphic physical constitution.

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