Biological Markers in Schizotypal Personality Disorder
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Biological markers in schizotypal personality disorder.
The establishment of the new diagnostic category, Schizotypal Personality Disorder (SPD), has stimulated biological studies of patients with this disorder. Such studies offer the potential of better understanding the diagnosis and treatment of SPD as well as more clearly defining the boundaries of the schizophrenic disorders. SPD has been studied in the clinical setting, in family studies of sc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Schizophrenia Bulletin
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0586-7614,1745-1701
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/11.4.564