[Pathologic manifestations in children whose parents are ill with schizophrenia].

The author analyzed the mental development of 252 children born by schizophrenic patients. The detected anomalies were considered from the point of view of sex, age of the onset of psychosis and the type of the process in the ill parents. The found personality changes in these children were compared to the premorbid traits of children and adolescents of another group (128 cases) of schizophrenic patients having identical hereditary loading. This gives the bases to conclude that the personality changes in children of schizophrenic parents carry certain prognostical information.