[Comparative clinico-epidemiologic characteristics of affective psychoses and periodic schizophrenia].
The author presents the results of an epidemiological study of 274 patients with manic-depressive psychosis and 433 patients with periodic schizophrenia. The study concerns the comparison of syndromal conditions in these diseases and criteria of prognosis. It is stressed that a bipolar development is an unfavorable prognostical sign in both disorders. The prognosis is especially poor if manic states appear at the earlier stages of the disorder. The probability of a more severe development of manic-depressive psychosis and periodic schizophrenia is higher in males than in females.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D011599:Psychopathology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D013577:Syndrome
Sravnitel'naia kliniko-épidemiologicheskaia kharakteristika affektivnykh psikhozov i periodicheskoĭ shizofrenii