title: [Schizophrenia: diagnosis, classification, course and prognosis].
abstract: Schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness usually considered as one of the most disabling. Its clinical manifestations are characterized by a mental splitting which is a loss of the unity and cohesion of mental activity. A paranoid state or psychomotor disturbance are, sometimes, associated with this mental splitting. The course of the disease may be continuous or oscillating with acute exacerbations. The outcome of schizophrenia is often characterized by a chronic defect state but may be quite good for one half of the patients.
authors.affiliation: Service hospitalo-universitaire de psychiatrie d'adultes, hôpital Saint-Marguerite, Marseille.
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authors.lastname: Bougerol
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013997:Time Factors