Etiology, pathogenesis, and pathology.

Abstract

His publications include Psychiatry and the Law and Handbook of Psychiatry (with W . V. Richmond).Dr. Overholser has been decorated by the French Government as a Chevalier of the Legion o f Honor and by the Government of Ecuador. In

Familial concordance by sex with respect to schizophrenia.

“…Has it been shown in any study heretofore that physical trauma of infection are etiologic with respect to schizophrenia generally? Reviews of the literature relevant to this point indicate that, aside from a number of isolated case reports, there is no evidence to support this view (Bellak 1947;Kety, 1959;Overholser & Werkman, 1958). We must therefore question why such factors would be relevant to twins but not to single born persons.…”

Present trends in schizophrenia research: Implications for childhood schizophrenia.

“…There is considerable potential value in doing this, fo r there has been a far greater amount of etiological research in adult schizophrenia, and the directions as well as the problems of this work could point the way fo r fu rther specifi c studies with children. Since the litera ture on schizophrenia etiology has recently been reviewed in other publica tions (1,2), there will be no attempt at this time to repeat that task, though a number of relevant contributions will be discussed.…”