Some Observations on the Ætiology of Dementia Præcox

1 July 1930

journal article
research article
Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in Journal of Mental Science

Vol. 76 (314) , 505-511
https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.76.314.505

Abstract

It is generally admitted that hereditary predisposition plays an important part in the development of dementia præcox (or schizophrenia), and that a family history of mental illness is traceable in about 60% of cases.