The group of schizoaffective and related psychoses: IV. A family study
| Autor: | Roberta Fishman, Amos Welner, Zila Welner |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
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Adult
Male Proband medicine.medical_specialty Bipolar Disorder Adolescent Hallucinations lcsh:RC435-571 Poison control Suicide prevention Delusions Occupational safety and health lcsh:Psychiatry Injury prevention medicine Humans Psychiatry Aged Depression business.industry Social Behavior Disorders Human factors and ergonomics Middle Aged medicine.disease Suicide Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Schizoaffective psychosis Schizophrenia Female Cognition Disorders business Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Comprehensive Psychiatry, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 21-26 (1979) |
| Popis: | There is increasing evidence that numerous affective symptoms are present during every stage of schizophrenia, often persisting throughout the patient's schizophrenic life. This study has shown that sick first-degree relatives have manifested a very similar clinical picture, course and outcome as the probands. Since the course of illness in both probands and relatives was chronic psychotic and deteriorating, it was characteristic of schizophrenia and not of affective disorder. Neither the presence of numerous affective symptoms, nor the family study indicated the presence of schizoaffective psychosis as a diagnostic entity. We suggest, therefore, that the term “undiagnosed” rather than schizoaffective psychosis be used when encountering acute cases of psychotic and affective symptoms. The methodological shortcomings of this study were discussed. |
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