TY  - JOUR
T1  - COntracting schizophrenia
AU  - Yudofsky SC
Y1  - 2009/01/21
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2008.980
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 324
EP  - 326
VL  - 301
IS  - 3
N2  - 

			The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 was contracted by more than 500 million individuals worldwide, between 50 million and 100 million individuals died in just 1 year, and the preponderance of deaths was among 20- to 40-year-olds.1 One of the few silver linings in the dark, devastating cloud of this epidemic has been its value as a probe for elucidating conceptual approaches for diagnosing and treating subsequent psychiatric illnesses among those who were infected and survived. Paradoxically, each advance in the diagnostic classification systems of psychiatric disorders during the 20th century has also brought coincident conceptual limitations that have impaired research into the understanding and treatment of individuals with mental illnesses.
		

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2008.980
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2008.980
ER  -