title: The diagnostic ambiguity of postpsychotic depression.
abstract: A clearly differentiated episode of depression in the aftermath of acute psychosis reportedly occurs in approximately 25 percent of all patients hospitalized with a diagnosis of acute schizophrenia. A comparison of premorbid functioning, symptomatology, and clinical course in patients with a postpsychotic depression following acute schizophrenic episodes and patients in the depressed phase of bipolar depressive illness suggests a high congruence between the two disorders. The results support the growing evidence that bipolar depressive illness is frequently misdiagnosed as acute schizophrenia.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000341:Affective Disorders, Psychotic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012917:Social Adjustment