Gottensman

Question 1

What year was the study

Answer 1

2010

Question 2

What was the aim

Answer 2

To use a alrge sample to test the genteic links between close relative’s mental health disorders and children’s

Question 3

What was the method

Answer 3

It used secondary data from a database on a cohort of the Danish population.
The data came from ‘The Danish Civil Registration System’ on people born in Denmark between 1968-97
and ‘The Danish Psychiatric Central Register’ which holds info on 650,000 people born from 1970-2007. Only people 10+ from 2007 with 2 groups of being admitted to hospitals and 2 being control groups were tested.

Question 4

What was the procedure

Answer 4

Data on each ‘off-spring’ was linked with their parent’s psychiatric history and ,using the civil registration, they were linkd to parents on the psychiatric register. Using this, the researchers identified bipolar, schitzohprenia and major depression.

Question 5

What was the results

Answer 5

-Having 1 parent with a disorder increases the chancing of the child having it and this is increased even more with both parents.
-Only a few cases of schitz. were newly diagnosed after 45yo. This suggests the oneset schitz. normally occurs before 45.
-Results for bipolar show that you can develop it over the age of 45 but there is no data for over 52.
-If a child has 1 parent for each disorder, they are more likely to develop one of them than previous results