Regressive childhood psychosis.
1) Forty-seven children were examined and treated because of psychotic signs during the last 13 years, 35 of them improved and the rest deteriorated. 2) Twelve deteriorated children had four similar symptoms in spite of different age of onset. These are fluid regressive motor play, compulsive tendency for the maintenance of sameness, autistic language disorder and body image disorder. 3) The author calls this illness regressive childhood psychosis, and it can occur between six and 10 years of age.
D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D012561:Schizophrenia, Childhood / Q000175:diagnosis*