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ReviewSchizophrenia bulletin2015

The Kraepelinian Dichotomy From the Perspective of Prenatal Infectious and Immunologic Insults.

Alan S Brown

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Review in Schizophrenia bulletin, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
12.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders manifesting with psychosis.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2025
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  3. Assessing for prenatal risk factors associated with infant neurologic morbidity using a multivariate analysis.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2023
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  4. Inflammation as a Mechanism of Bipolar Disorder Neuroprogression.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alan S BrownDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY asb11@cumc.columbia.edu.
New York State Psychiatric Institute

Funding

Prenatal Factors and Risk of Bipolar DisorderR01MH073080 · NIMH · NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC · PI BROWN, ALAN STEWART · 2006 to 2010
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NIMH NIH HHS 5R01MH073080
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The "Kraepelinian dichotomy" between schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) has been a dominant force in our thinking on the classification of these mental disorders. Emerging evidence indicates that these 2 disorders overlap significantly with regard to epidemiology, clinical presentation, genetic susceptibility, structural neuroanatomy, and treatment. Prenatal infection and immunologic dysfunction appear to be risk factors for both SZ and BD; some of these gestational exposures are present in both disorders while others may be specific to 1 or the other of the 2 syndromes. In this paper, we shall review prior studies of prenatal infections and immunologic insults in schizophrenia and BD, including exposures which overlap and which differ between these disorders, discuss the potential utility of maternal infection as one strategy toward developing a more biologically meaningful diagnostic classification system, and propose new recommendations for future research aimed at dissecting these 2 disorders from one another at the etiologic level.

Indexed as

Bipolar DisorderSchizophreniaFemaleHumansImmune System DiseasesPregnancyPregnancy Complications, Infectiousbipolar disorderbirth cohortepidemiologyimmunologyinfectionKraepelinprenatalrisk factorschizophrenia

Identifiers

PMID25964504
PMCPMC4466196
OpenAlexW2096440043

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