title: Schizophrenia in adolescent twins: a case study.
abstract: Studies of schizophrenia in twins have historically influenced the psychiatric world in shifting the focus of the etiology of psychiatric disorders from a psychodynamic to a genetic one. Although twinning is as frequent a phenomenon as schizophrenia, clinical issues relating to the development of twins and treatment of psychiatrically sick twins are relatively infrequent in the literature. This article presents the treatment of adolescent schizophrenic twins, and focuses on specific developmental, educational and therapeutic issues that must be considered when treating twins. The recent treatment of identical schizophrenic twins has allowed us to review the literature and revisit some of these issues.
authors.affiliation: Behavioral Genetic Clinic, Feinberg Child Study Center, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, 14 Kaplan St., POB 559, Petah Tiqwa 49202, Israel. gothelf@post.tau.ac.il
authors.forename: Doron
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gothelf
authors.forename: Ayelet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brand-Gothelf
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Apter
authors.forename: Yehonatan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sever
authors.forename: Liron
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bodinger
authors.forename: Paul J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Lombroso
authors.forename: Sam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tyano
authors.forename: Donald J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D014427:Twins / Q000523:psychology*