Quality of Affective Symptomatology and Its Importance for the Definition of Schizoaffective Disorders

1 January 1989

journal article
research article
Published by S. Karger AG in Psychopathology

Vol. 22 (2-3) , 152-160
https://doi.org/10.1159/000284589

Abstract

169 patients with schizophrenic symptomatology at least once and a mean follow-up period of 20 years were divided in three groups regarding the presence and type of accompanying affective symptomatology. The groups were compared regarding sociodemographic and other premorbid features and long-term outcome. The results show that not every depressive or euphoric symptom but only melancholic or manic symptomatology qualifies the schizophrenic syndrome as schizoaffective.

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