Psychiatric Disease
In a small twin study on Autism and Attention deficit disorder (around 50 twin pairs for each disease and zygosity) twin study, he argued these disorders may be less heritable than previously considered, implicating a significant family-level environment effect.
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Famous quotes containing the words psychiatric and/or disease:
“Indeed the involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)
“I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad.
I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell:
We’ll no more meet, no more see one another.
But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter—
Or rather a disease that’s in my flesh,
Which I must needs call mine.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)