title: Alcoholism followed by schizophrenia.
abstract: On the basis of findings of earlier workers, and our own unsystematic observations, we put forward the hypothesis that alcohol abuse was an important etiological factor in some schizophrenia-like psychoses. We tested the hypothesis by comparing schizophrenic patients who had abused alcohol with schizophrenic patients who had not. The findings generally support the hypothesis, and indicate that a chronic psychosis distinguishable by a hallucinatory onset and, at its height, by visual hallucinations, may be one of the complications of alcohol abuse.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D011604:Psychoses, Alcoholic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed