title: [An experimental psychological study of sex/gender differences in patients with schizophrenia].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To perform an experimental psychological study of gender differences in patients with attack-like schizophrenia in the aspect of pathopsychological syndrome.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study included 80 subjects: 40 men and 40 women, aged 18-30 years. The disease duration was <3 years. Patients were examined in remission.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The major gender differences are manifested in emotional and personal characteristics and self-concepts related with them, as well in the characteristics of communication. It can be assumed that these gender differences are due to a more pronounced presence of an affective component in the structure of endogenous disorders in women which slightly softens the manifestation of negative disorders during the endogenous process.
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Research Center, Moscow.
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Meleshko
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Research Center, Moscow.
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Kritskaya