[Characteristics of schizoaffective episodes developed after emotional stress].
It was studied 74 patients who developed schizoaffective disorder in conditions of emotional stress (the basic group) and 51 patients with spontaneous manifestation of schizoaffective disorder (the comparison group). Three types of effect of stressful factors on the development of schizoaffective disorder in respect to its belonging to affective/dominant or schizo/dominant variants were singled out: the provoking effect referred to the provocation of schizoaffective episode; the pathoplastic effect that manifestef itself by the appearance of psychogenic disorders in the clinical picture of psychosis; the pathokinetic effect that strengthened and expanded existing symptoms, stopped psychosis or changed the character of affective disorder.
Alekseev
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Shmilovich
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology