Schizophrenic, depressed, and nonpsychiatric medical patients: an ethologically based comparison.
This paper reports on an ethologically based comparison of the behavior of 11 schizophrenic subjects with the behavior of 11 matched control subjects and 11 matched endogenously depressed subjects. All subjects were studied while they were in inpatient hospital wards. Findings include: a) The behavior pattern of schizophrenic subjects deviates significantly from that of control subjects in seven behavior parameters; b) the behavior pattern of schizophrenic subjects deviates from that of depressed subjects in one behavior parameter; c) one specific behavior, talk-to-himself/herself, discriminates schizophrenic subjects from depressed and control subjects.
Schelde
J T
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Department of Psychiatry, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005010:Ethology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D014705:Verbal Behavior