SIMULTANEOUS OCCURRENCE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA IN IDENTICAL TWINS
REBECCA SOLOMON M. D.1, and
EUGENE L. BLISS M. D.1
1 The West Haven Veterans Administration Hospital and Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine.
A study of identical twins who developed schizophrenic reactions simultaneously is presented. The vulnerability of the twins to schizophrenia is not explained by the data, but it is suggested that the symbiotic relationship existing between the two, was responsible for the coincidence of the two psychotic processes.
