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...Rapoport said those suffering from the disorder usually have their first schizophrenic episode after 17 years...
...Rapoport turned to a study of childhood schizophrenia because she said thatshe felt a "number of things [were] conspiring [tocreate] a unique opportunity" in this field ofresearch...
...Rapoport said that another reason for herinterest in the study of young schizophrenics isthat past studies of early onsets in similardiseases have yielded impressive results. Studiesoften find that children who develop such diseasesat a young age will experience more severe casesand have stronger family histories of thediseases...
Case histories for over 600 patients werereviewed at NIMH sites around the country,Rapoport said. One hundred and thirteen candidateswere selected for in-depth interviews; 30 werefound to suffer from the early onset ofschizophrenia...
...results of the study have so far been"largely negative," Rapoport said. The prevalenceof schizophrenia among family members of thosestudied, according to Rapoport, is not greaterthan the rate among the families of adultschizophrenics...