title: [Schizophrenia, manic-depressive psychoses and "middle cases". A clinical and nosologic study with cluster analysis].
abstract: Having analyzed the main nosographies concerning the endogenous psychoses problem, the A. aim at obtaining a subdivision of the psychotic patients into classes based on the similarity shown by the same patients about symptoms found out by a transverse examination. For this purpose, 246 psychotic inpatients have been given PSE to evaluate the presence/absence of 18 symptoms considered discriminant to the clinical rating of the patients. Such data have been processed by a Cluster Analysis. We got 7 groups of probands that have stressed the relevant number of cases with a mixture of affective and schizophrenic symptoms. We suggest the use of a bidimensional model to get a proper fitting of psychotics with mixed symptomatology.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche e Psichiatriche, Università degli Studi di Firenze.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cabras
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Strik
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ricca
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: La Malfa
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology
vernacular_title: Schizofrenia, psicosi maniaco-depressiva e "casi di mezzo". Indagine clinica e contributo nosografico mediante la Cluster Analysis.