BIOLOGIC FACTORS IN SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONAL DISORDERS

Authors
SIEVER LJ
Citation
Lj. Siever, BIOLOGIC FACTORS IN SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONAL DISORDERS, Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica, 90, 1994, pp. 45-50
Citations number
33
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Psychiatry
Journal title
Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica → ACNP
ISSN journal
0001690X
Volume
90
Year of publication
1994
Supplement
384
Pages
45 - 50
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-690X(1994)90:<45:BFISPD>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
New studies of the boundaries of schizophrenia suggest that schizotypa l personality disorder is biologically and genetically related to schi zophrenia with alterations in brain structure/function related to defi cit-like symptoms and increased dopaminergic function to psychotic-lik e symptoms.