Cognitive dysfunction and negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia and their first-degree relatives from simplex and multiplex families

Zhikun Zhang,1 Rong Zhang,2 Peng Qin,3 Liwen Tan4 1Mental Health Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China; 2Department of Psychiatry, Staff Hospital of Zhongyuan Oil Field Company, Puyang, Henan, China; 3Department of Psychiatry, Changde Rehabilitation Hospital, Changde, Hunan, China; 4Department

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Permissibility of prenatal diagnosis and abortion for fetuses with severe genetic disorder: type 1 spinal muscular atrophy

FACIAL CLEANSER Abortion has been largely avoided in Muslim communities.However, Islamic jurists have established rigorous parameters enabling abortion of fetuses with severe congenital abnormalities.This decision-making process has been hindered by an inability to predict the severity of such prenatally-diagnosed conditions, especially in genetic

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