[The psychopathologic picture of incipient schizophrenia in the male population at approximately 20 years of age].
As the diagnosis of initial schizophrenic psychosis is sometimes difficult and the diagnosis of schizophrenia is based on psychopathological characteristics the author used the relative homogenity of their cases for comparison with various known concepts and scales in an attempt to contribute to the serious problem of assessment of this nosological unit. Psychopathological descriptions of 45 cases of first hospitalizations on account of schizophrenia of men aged 18-24 years were investigated with regard to E. Bleuler's and Schneider's concept, with regard to the BPRS scale of Overall and Gorham and Carpenter's scale. The stability of "narrowly" set diagnoses of schizophrenia during short--term hospitalization (mean 48 days) verified catamnestically in 31 patients in 87% of whom the diagnosis was confirmed. By collection of symptoms and their classification an inventory of symptoms was assembled--890 terms, on average 20 symptoms per patient. Comparison of agglomerations of synomyms of symptoms with the above mentioned concepts of schizophrenia, simplified for the needs of the present work to a list of symptoms, proved useful also in case of the uncommon ex post application to BPRS systems and to Carpenter's approach. Schneider's symptoms of first order were found in the investigated group of schizophrenias in 75% of the cases. In the discussion the author deals briefly with problems of diagnosis of "fresh" schizophrenic psychoses in the selected group, in particular with regard to the post--adolescent developmental stage.
Sneler
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Psychiatrické oddĕlení VN, Brno.
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology
Psychopatologické obrazy pocínajících schizofrenií u muzské populace ve vĕku kolem 20 let.