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The Genain quadruplets (born in 1930) are a set of identical quadruplet sisters. All four developed schizophrenia , suggesting a large genetic component to the cause of the disease. [ 1 ] The pseudonym Genain , used to protect the identity of the family, comes from the Greek , meaning dire (αἶνος) birth (γεν-). [ 1 ]
When Sadie Morlok gave birth to quadruplets in 1930, it made the papers in their town of Lansing, Michigan. Under the spotlight since birth, the legacy of the Morlok Quadruplets became intertwined ...
It describes their spiral down into their own mental illness and how this greatly impacted their public image, and the study that followed. Girls and Their Monsters also contains not only a detailed history of psychiatry, and how the study of the quadruplets pushed research on schizophrenia forward, but how the bias of mental illness in ...
The Morlok quadruplets (born 1930 in Lansing, Michigan). The girls were the first known surviving set of identical quads and were later anonymised as the Genain quadruplets in psychiatric studies of genetic links to schizophrenia. The Johnson quadruplets (born in 1935 in Dunedin, New Zealand) were the first surviving set of quadruplets in ...
Doctors put the odds of having identical quadruplets at about one in 15 million. There are roughly 72 documented cases of spontaneous identical quadruplets in medical history.
The Library of Michigan released its Michigan Notable Books list for 2024.
He is particularly recognized for his research on the Genain quadruplets, and he led the team who studied the quadruplets intensively from 1955 to 1958. [3] [4] [5] In 1976, then-NIMH director Bertram S. Brown described Rosenthal as "one of the top scientists in the area of the nature and etiology of schizophrenia."
A set of rare identical quadruplets can’t stop holding hands — and it's touching to watch. “They’re constantly reaching for each other,” Jonathan Sandhu, the babies’ dad, tells TODAY ...