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Personality and Body Composition in Monozygotic Twins with an Affective Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

K. Abe  and
Alec Coppen
K. Abe
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Psychiatric Genetics Research Unity Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5. Now at: Department of Psychiatry, Osaka City University Medical School, Abenoku, Osaka, Japan
Alec Coppen
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, Carshalton, and West Park Hospital, Epsom, Surrey
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In recent years, studies on patients suffering from manic-depressive and depressive illness have shown that these patients have certain psychological and biochemical characteristics and also abnormalities in body-build and body-composition. Some of these characteristics are clearly concomitants of the illness itself, as they revert to normal after clinical recovery. However, some remain abnormal even after recovery, and the question arises: are these constitutional characteristics perhaps genetically determined, or are they the persisting result of the illness itself?

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 524 , July 1969 , pp. 777 - 780
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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