genetic study of psychiatric disorders
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genetic studies were carried out on a total of 196 psychiatric patients, hospitalized in sorkhe hesar, roozbeh, cherazi and chaharom aban hospitals. out of all the patients studied, 74 were schizophrenic, 30 manic-depressive, 47 depressive (neurotic), 12, hysteric, 9 epileptic and the remainder had different psychiatric diseases and conditions such as: anxiety and phobia, scrupulousness mental retardation, sexual deviations, personality disorders and addiction. the schizophrenic group of patients had a strikingly heptomorphic physical constitution.
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iranian journal of public healthجلد ۸، شماره ۳، صفحات ۱۰۹-۱۲۴
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