Abstract:Background
Family history of affective disorders has long been recognized as one of the strongest risk factors for the onset and maintenance of the disorders. Familial risk for affective disorders represents an integration of an underlying genetic vulnerability and the familial clustering of unfavorable family circumstances in (early) life. In order to alleviate some of the burden that affective disorders are causing, it is necessary to better understand how the disorders and their associated features operate… Show more
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