Quality of affective symptomatology and its importance for the definition of schizoaffective disorders.
169 patients with schizophrenic symptomatology at least once and a mean follow-up period of 20 years were divided in three groups regarding the presence and type of accompanying affective symptomatology. The groups were compared regarding sociodemographic and other premorbid features and long-term outcome. The results show that not every depressive or euphoric symptom but only melancholic or manic symptomatology qualifies the schizophrenic syndrome as schizoaffective.
Psychiatric Department, University of Bonn, FRG.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000150:complications*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012923:Social Class