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Keywords:

Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Cognition Disorders, Family, Female, Humans, Interview, Psychological, Male, Middle Aged, Phenotype, Population Surveillance, Psychotic Disorders, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Sex Distribution, Speech, Verbal Behavior, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Psychiatry, psychosis, psychosis-proneness, schizotypy, cognition : general population, risk factor, SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY, SCHIZOPHRENIC-PATIENTS, NONPSYCHOTIC RELATIVES, STRUCTURED INTERVIEW, SEX-DIFFERENCES, DISORDER, FEATURES, VULNERABILITY, INDICATORS, PREVALENCE, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, 3202 Clinical sciences

Abstract:

Cognitive impairments may be markers of familial transmission of liability to psychosis. This study examined to what degree the subclinical psychosis phenotype in the general population shows similar familial continuity with cognition, measured with a verbal fluency test, and whether this was similar for men and women.