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The Iowa 500: Follow-up of 225 Depressives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

George Winokur  and
James Morrison
George Winokur
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52240, U.S.A.
James Morrison
Affiliation:
University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52240, U.S.A.
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In previous studies we have suggested that there are two types of depressive illness (4, 5). The first of these is depressive spectrum disease which has as its prototype the early-onset female depressive; the second type is pure depressive disease, the prototype of which is the late-onset male depressive. Other family studies support the differences between these two prototypes (1, 8). The early-onset females have a considerable amount of alcoholism and probably sociopathy in their male first-degree relatives. The late-onset males have an ordinary amount of these illnesses in their male relatives. In the families of early-onset females, female relatives outnumber male relatives for the presence of depressive illness; this is not seen in late-onset males, where male and female relatives have equal amounts of depressive illness.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 123 , Issue 576 , November 1973 , pp. 543 - 548
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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