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Three Lectures on Schizophrenia

The Natural History of Schizophrenia in the Long Term

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Luc Ciompi*
Affiliation:
Murtenstrasse 21, 3010 Berne, Switzerland

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It is well known that in some small European countries there exist especially favourable conditions for certain types of research which elsewhere meet enormous difficulties. This is exemplified in Denmark and other Scandinavian countries by the famous studies on the influence of genetic and environmental factors in schizophrenia, which were made possible by the exceptional availability of well organized national registers on twins, adoptees and psychotics.

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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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