SCHIZOPHRENIC WAR PSYCHOSES

Outcome in schizophrenic and similar paranoid psychoses.

A 5-year followup study of patients with schizophrenic or paranoid psychoses was performed using standardized instruments. Less than half of the patients had a poor global outcome. Several findings from other recent outcome studies were replicated. Besides data on occupational history and psychiatric hospitalization, psychopathological characteristics assessed at discharge by psychiatrists' rat...

Psychoses in children of schizophrenic mothers.

Captivity psychoses among prisoners of war.

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor and neurotrophin 3 in schizophrenic psychoses.

Disturbed neural development has been postulated as a crucial factor in the pathophysiology of schizophrenic psychoses. The neurobiochemical basis for such changes of cytoarchitecture and changed neural plasticity could involve an alteration in the regulation of neurotrophic factors. In order to test this hypothesis, BDNF and NT-3 levels in post-mortem brain tissue from schizophrenic patients w...

Predicting the revolving door phenomenon among patients with schizophrenic, affective disorders and non-organic psychoses.

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to identify the variables that predict the revolving door phenomenon in psychiatric hospital at the moment of a second admission. METHODS The sample consisted of 3,093 patients who have been followed during 5 to 24 years after their first hospital admission due to schizophrenia, and affective or psychotic disorders. Those who had had four or more admissions ...