Infants at risk for schizophrenia: sequelae of a genetic neurointegrative defect. A review and replication analysis of pandysmaturation in the Jerusalem Infant Development Study

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1992 Mar;49(3):221-35. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1992.01820030053007.

Abstract

A 1975 report stated that a schizophrenic genotype may be manifested in infants by a neurointegrative defect called pandysmaturation. Recent evidence supports this: (1) 12 studies found delayed development in schizophrenics' infants and in preschizophrenics; (2) "blind" psychometric evaluations favored an adult schizotypal disorder in four to six of seven high-risk subjects with pandysmaturation in the New York study; and (3) finally, in a partial replication of this method using the Jerusalem data, blind diagnoses of "probable" and "possible" pandysmaturation were significantly related to a parental diagnosis of schizophrenia and to cognitive and motor neurointegrative deficits at 10 years. Obstetrical complications were unrelated to diagnosis, pandysmaturation, or outcome in the overall sample. However, we found a small subgroup of schizophrenic offspring in whom the most severe motor deficits at follow-up were related to obstetrical complications, pandysmaturation, and low birth weight.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Developmental Disabilities / genetics
  • Disease Susceptibility
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Low Birth Weight
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Models, Biological
  • Nervous System Diseases / complications
  • Nervous System Diseases / genetics*
  • Risk Factors
  • Schizophrenia / etiology
  • Schizophrenia / genetics*
  • Schizotypal Personality Disorder / etiology
  • Schizotypal Personality Disorder / genetics