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Manic Depressive Psychosis: Some New Aetiological Considerations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

P. R. J. Burch
P. R. J. Burch*
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Environmental Radiation Research Unit, and Department of Medical Physics, The University of Leeds; The General Infirmary, Leeds, I
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My purpose in this article is to draw attention to certain statistical features of manic depressive psychosis and to inquire into their possible aetiological significance.

I shall show that some of these statistical characteristics are very similar to comparable aspects of diseases that are widely considered to be autoimmune. Although it does not follow than manic depressive psychosis is an auto immune disorder, the parallels and coincidences are perhaps sufficiently striking to warrant further investigation.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 110 , Issue 469 , November 1964 , pp. 808 - 817
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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