Hanne Schulsinger

TL;DR: It is proposed that birth complications can decompensate borderline individuals towards schizophrenic breakdown and be interpreted in terms of a 'diathesis-stress' model.

TL;DR: A significant aggregation of schizophrenia and other nonaffective, nonorganic psychosis and Cluster A personality disorders occurred among the offspring of schizophrenic mothers compared with the controls and no evidence of increased aggregation of (psychotic and nonpsychotic) affective disorders was noted among the children of schizophrenics.

TL;DR: It is indicated that signs of defective emotional contact and formal thought disorder are important for the psychopathology of schizophrenia and the premorbid similarity of borderline schizophrenia and schizophrenia suggests a basic relationship between these two disorders.

TL;DR: Within a prospective, longitudinal study of offspring of schizophrenic mothers, computed tomographic scan-derived measurements of ventricular size were evaluated for a subsample consisting of schizophrenics, borderline schizophrenics (DSM-III schizotypal), and mentally healthy individuals to be consistent with the hypothesis that neurological insult may decompensate schizotypesal individuals toward florid schizophrenia.

TL;DR: The Copenhagen longitudinal high-risk study of offspring of 129 schizophrenic mothers has re-examined all of the hospital records of these mothers and found that 108 fulfil present-day DSM-III criteria for schizophrenia and 95 were diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic according to ICD-8 criteria.