title: [Relationship between sex and the clinical picture of schizophrenia in adolescents].
abstract: In 100 boys and 100 girls with an onset of schizophrenia in adolescency, the hereditary loading, traits of premorbid personality, the clinical picture and development of the disease depending upon the sex were studied. Some sex differences in the clinical picture of adolescent schizophrenia were demonstrated, for instance, an earlier onset in girls, a prevalence in the clinical picture of affective disorders. The clinical picture of boys was mainly characterized by psychopath-like behaviour and its specificity in adolescents of both sexes. There were also other sex differences in the clinical picture, development and prognosis of the disease.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012737:Sex Factors; D013577:Syndrome
vernacular_title: O nekotorykh osobennostiakh kliniki shizofrenii u podrostkov v zavisimosti ot pola.