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. 1990 Sep;20(1):63-9.
doi: 10.1016/0165-0327(90)90050-i.

A family study of lithium-responsive psychosis

F J Sautter  1 , B E McDermott, D L Garver
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A family study of lithium-responsive psychosis

F J Sautter et al. J Affect Disord. 1990 Sep.

Abstract

Psychiatric life histories of 487 first-degree family members of 24 lithium-responsive (mood-incongruent) psychotics, 54 lithium-nonresponsive (mood-incongruent) psychotics, and 18 lithium-responsive patients with bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder were contrasted. While the morbid risk of schizophrenic-spectrum was 11.1% in relatives of lithium-nonresponsive probands, the morbid risk for such disorders was only 2.4% in relatives of lithium-responsive (mood-incongruent) psychotics (P less than 0.05). This lithium-responsive illness appears to be familially, and perhaps genetically, distinct from the bulk of the schizophrenias.

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