{"id":221362,"date":"2025-09-03T04:27:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/spouses-show-consistent-similarities-across-nine-psychiatric-disorders-over-generations"},"modified":"2025-09-03T04:27:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:27:05","slug":"spouses-show-consistent-similarities-across-nine-psychiatric-disorders-over-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/spouses-show-consistent-similarities-across-nine-psychiatric-disorders-over-generations","title":{"rendered":"Spouses show consistent similarities across nine psychiatric disorders over generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spouses-show-consistent-similarities-across-nine-psychiatric-disorders-over-generations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A multinational collaboration of researchers report that psychiatric spousal resemblance across nine psychiatric disorders appears consistent and persists across birth cohorts for roughly 90 years in a sample of over 14 million.<\/p>\n<p>Previous small-scale marriage registry studies have reported spousal similarities for several disorders and related psychiatric traits. A larger, population-based comparison across cultures and generations was needed to assess how widespread the phenomenon extends.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, \u201cSpousal correlations for nine <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/psychiatric+disorders\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">psychiatric disorders<\/a> are consistent across cultures and persistent over generations,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-025-02298-z\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Human Behaviour<\/i>, researchers performed a large-scale analysis to quantify spousal correlations across nine psychiatric disorders and to test cultural and generational stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multinational collaboration of researchers report that psychiatric spousal resemblance across nine psychiatric disorders appears consistent and persists across birth cohorts for roughly 90 years in a sample of over 14 million. Previous small-scale marriage registry studies have reported spousal similarities for several disorders and related psychiatric traits. A larger, population-based comparison across cultures and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}