• DOI:10.1093/SCHBUL/5.1.8
Corpus ID: 17724103

Reply to Lewine

@article{Samuels1979ReplyTL,
  title={Reply to Lewine},
  author={L. Samuels},
  journal={Schizophrenia Bulletin},
  year={1979},
  volume={5},
  pages={8-10}
}

L. Samuels

Published 1979

Psychology

Schizophrenia Bulletin

: In response to my discussion of sex differences in concordance rates for schizophrenia in twins, Lewine (1979) noted that male schizophrenics are hospitalized earlier than females. He questioned whether females had been followed through the risk period. To clarify, I calculated the age at followup of discordant twins in three studies. In Gottesman and Shields' (1972) study, the majority of both male and female co-twins were still under the age of 45. In contrast, all but a few of Kringlen's… CONTINUE READING

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