Remitting schizophrenia as a variant of affective disorder.

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Remitting schizophrenia is an important phenomenon in the United States largely because of the broad concept of schizophrenia used here. Clinical and family investigations of this condition suggest a close link between remitting schizophrenia and the affective disorders. However, the elevated morbidity risk of schizophrenia in first-degree relatives of remitting schizophrenics precludes the conclusion that remitting schizophrenia is simply a variant of affective disorders. The following testable hypothesis is consistent with the available data: remitting schizophrenia is a heterogeneous mixture of mania, unipolar depression, and typical schizophrenia. Mania and unipolar depression account for the majority of such disorders although schizophrenia may account for a sizable minority. Other disorders may be included in this mixture; but, their contribution to the remitting schizophrenias is probably small.

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Author/s: Fowler, R C (RC);

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Schizophrenia bulletin (Schizophr Bull), published in UNITED STATES. (Language: eng)

Reference: 1978-; vol 4 (issue 1) : pp 68-77

Dates: Created 1979/05/16; Completed 1979/05/16; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 746363, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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