Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-m6dg7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-10T12:59:36.922Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

IQ and Fertility in Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Marshall B. Jones
Marshall B. Jones*
Affiliation:
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

In recent years workers in the area have reached and secured several points of critical importance in the aetiology of schizophrenia. Studies carried out on children bora to schizophrenic mothers but separated from them at birth or in early infancy have established that genetic factors play a major role in the disease (Heston, 1966; Karlsson, 1966; Rosenthal et al., 1968). The index children in these studies become schizophrenic at roughly the same rates (10–15 per cent) as children reared by their schizophrenic mothers and much more commonly than control children separated from non-schizophrenic mothers early in life and placed through the same agencies to comparable foster or adoptive homes.

Type
Abstract
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 122 , Issue 571 , June 1973 , pp. 689 - 696
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Albee, G. W., Lane, E. A., Corcoran, C., and Wernecke, A. (1963). ‘Childhood and intercurrent intellectual performance of adult schizophrenics.’ Journal of Consulting Psychology, 27, 364–6.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Albee, G. W., Lane, E. A., and Reuter, J. M. (1964). ‘Childhood intelligence of future schizophrenics and neighborhood peers.’ Journal of Psychology, 58, 141–4.Google ScholarPubMed
Bajema, C. (1963). ‘Estimation of the direction and intensity of natural selection in relation to human intelligence by means of the intrinsic rate of natural increase.’ Eugenics Quarterly, 10, 175–81.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Batman, R. H., Albee, G. W., and Lane, E. A. (1966). ‘Intelligence test performance of chronic and recovered schizophrenics’, in Proceedings of the 74th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Chicago.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Belmont, I., Birch, H. G., Klein, D. F., and Pollack, M. (1964). ‘Perceptual evidence of CNS dysfunction in schizophrenia.’ Archives of General Psychiatry, 10, 395–408.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bender, L. (1953). ‘Childhood schizophrenia.’ Psychiatric Quarterly, 27, 663–84.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Book, J. A. (1953). ‘A genetic and neuropsychiatric investigation of a north-Swedish population.’ Acta Genetica et Statistica (Basel), 4, 1.Google ScholarPubMed
Eisenberg, L. (1956). ‘The autistic child in adolescence.’ American Journal of Psychiatry, 112, 607–12.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Erlenmeyer-Kimling, L., and Jarvik, L. F. (1963). ‘Genetics and intelligence: a review.’ Science, 142, 1477–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Erlenmeyer-Kimling, L., Nicol, S., Rainer, J. D., and Deming, W. E. (1969). ‘Changes in fertility rates of schizophrenic patients in New York State.’ American Journal of Psychiatry, 125, 916–27.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hallgren, B., and Sjögren, T. (1959). ‘A clinical and genetico-statistical study of schizophrenia and low grade mental deficiency in a large Swedish rural population.’ Acta Psychiatrica et Neurologica Scandinavica, Supplement 140, Volume 35.Google Scholar
Heath, E. G., Albee, G. W., and Lane, E. A. (1965). ‘Predisorder intelligence of process and reactive schizophrenics and their siblings’, in Proceedings of the 73rd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. Washington, D.C. Google Scholar
Heston, L. (1966). ‘Psychiatric disorders in foster home reared children of schizophrenic mothers.’ British Journal of Psychiatry, 112, 819–25.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Jones, M. B. (1957). ‘An addition to Schaeffer and Levitt's “Kendall's Tau”.’ Psychological Bulletin, 54, 159–60.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Karlsson, J. L. (1966). The Biologic Basis of Schizophrenia. Springfield, Ill.: C. C. Thomas.Google Scholar
Lane, E. A., and Albee, G. W. (1963). ‘Childhood intellectual development of adult schizophrenics.’ Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 67, 186–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lane, E. A., and Albee, G. W. (1965). ‘Childhood intellectual differences between schizophrenic adults and their siblings.’ American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 35, 747–53.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lane, E. A., and Albee, G. W. (1970). ‘Intellectual antecedents of schizophrenia’, in Life History Research in Psychopathology (eds. Roff, M. and Ricks, D. F.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.Google Scholar
Mednick, S. A. (1970). ‘Breakdown in individuals at high risk for schizophrenia; possible predispositional perinatal factors.’ Mental Hygiene, 54, 50–63.Google Scholar
Offord, D. R., and Cross, L. A. (1971). ‘Adult schizophrenia with scholastic failure or low IQ in childhood.’ Archives of General Psychiatry, 24, 431–6.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pollack, M. (1960). ‘Comparison of childhood adolescent, and adult schizophrenias.’ Archives of General Psychiatry, 2, 652–660.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pollack, M. Levenstein, S., and Klein, D. F. (1968). ‘A three-year post-hospital follow-up of adolescent and adult schizophrenics.’ American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 38, 94–109.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pollack, M. Woerner, M. G., and Klein, D. F. (1970). ‘A comparison of childhood characteristics of schizophrenics, personality disorders, and their siblings’, in Life History Research in Psychotherapy (eds. Roff, M. and Ricks, D. F.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.Google Scholar
Reed, E. W., and Reed, S. C. (1965). Mental Retardation: A Family Study. Philadelphia: Saunders.Google Scholar
Rosenthal, D., Wender, P. H., Kety, S. S., Schulsinger, F., Welner, J., and Ostergaard, L. (1968). ‘Schizophrenics' offspring reared in adoptive homes’, in The Transmission of Schizophrenia (eds. Rosenthal, D. and Kety, S. S.). New York: Pergamon Press.Google Scholar
Satz, P., and Mogel, S. (1962). ‘An abbreviation of the WAIS for clinical use.’ Journal of Clinical Psychology, 28, 77–9.Google Scholar
Scarr-Salapatek, S. (1971). ‘Race, social class, and IQ.’ Science, 174, 1285–95.Google ScholarPubMed
Shearer, M. L., Davidson, R. T., and Finch, S. M. (1967). ‘The sex ratio of offspring born to state hospitalized schizophrenic women.’ Journal of Psychiatric Research, 5, 349–50.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Siegel, S. (1956). Nonparametric Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences. New York: McGraw-Hill.Google Scholar
Sobel, D. E. (1961). ‘Infant mortality and malformations in children of schizophrenic women.’ Psychiatric Quarterly, 35, 60–65.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stevens, B. C. (1969). Marriage and Fertility of Women Suffering From Schizophrenia or Affective Disorders, Maudsley Monograph No. 19. London: Oxford University Press.Google ScholarPubMed
Stotsky, B. A. (1952). ‘A comparison of remitting and nonremitting schizophrenics on psychological tests.’ Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 47, 489–96.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Taylor, M. A. (1969). ‘Sex ratios of newborns: Associated with prepartum and postpartum schizophrenia.’ Science, 164, 723–4.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Waller, J. (1971). ‘Differential reproduction: Its relation to IQ test score, education, and occupation.’ Social Biology, 18, 122–36.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Wiedorn, W. S. (1954). ‘Toxemia of pregnancy and schizophrenia.’ Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, 120, 1–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.