[Classification of the course of childhood schizophrenia in the light of long-term follow-up]

Abstract

The work deals with the catamnestic substantiation of the systematics of schizophrenia in children. A group of 328 patients was selected in 1982-1987 from a cohort of schizophrenic patients studied in 1962-1972 in which the onset of the disease fell on their first 5 years. The stability of the course patterns was evidenced in the early childhood schizophrenia. A set of subspecies of disorders similar to schizoactive psychoses and peculiar affective schizoid states was differentiated out of the general pool of slow progredient and attack-like schizophrenia. This allowed to prove the notion of the whole continuum of endogenous psychoses in not only adults but also in children.