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Hyperostosis Frontalis Interna and Mental Morbidity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Jan Wålinder
Jan Wålinder*
Affiliation:
University of Göteborg, Psychiatric Research Centre, St Jörgen's Hospital, S-422 03 Hisings Backa, Sweden
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Abstract

Forty-six mentally ill women with radiologically verified hyperostosis frontalis interna (HFI) were compared with 46 matched mentally ill women without HFI in respect of mental morbidity among the full siblings of the two groups. It was found that mental morbidity was lower among the siblings of mentally ill women with HFI than among those of similar mentally ill women without HFI. A reasonable interpretation of these findings is that the combination mental illness-HFI is more often exogenously determined than other forms of mental illness.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 131 , Issue 2 , August 1977 , pp. 155 - 159
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1977 

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