Journal article
Demographic, Historical, and Symptomatic Features of the Nonmanic Psychoses
The journal of nervous and mental disease, Vol.174(10), pp.585-592
10/1986
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-198610000-00002
PMID: 3760848
Abstract
Consecutively admitted patients with nonmanic psychosis were more likely to meet Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) for schizoaffective disorder, depressed type (N = 47), than for psychotic major depression (N = 29) or schizophrenia (N = 21). Although the RDC duration requirements for these three disorders are quite similar, schizophrenics had already experienced much more chronicity as reflected in episode duration, psychosocial impairment during the preceding 5 years, marital status, and low likelihood of prior remission. Schizoaffective patients took intermediate positions in these measures in accord with the majority of follow-up studies comparing these disorders.Although the RDC specify the same array of psychotic symptoms for schizoaffectives and for schizophrenics, these symptoms were significantly more prominent among the schizophrenics. Conversely, although this system also specifies the same list of depressive symptoms for major depression and schizoaffective depression, symptoms of endogenous depression were significantly more prominent in the major depression group. Thus, among functionally psychotic patients, those with schizophrenia-like symptoms have milder and less typical depressive symptoms whereas those with depressive syndromes have fewer and milder schizophrenia-like symptoms.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Demographic, Historical, and Symptomatic Features of the Nonmanic Psychoses
- Creators
- WILLIAM CORYELL - 1Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of MedicineMARK ZIMMERMAN
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The journal of nervous and mental disease, Vol.174(10), pp.585-592
- Publisher
- Williams & Wilkins
- DOI
- 10.1097/00005053-198610000-00002
- PMID
- 3760848
- ISSN
- 0022-3018
- eISSN
- 1539-736X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/1986
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry
- Record Identifier
- 9984003969002771
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