Effect of exogenous factors on clinical features of initial disorders in adolescent schizophrenia
Mestiashvili, M.G.; Rukhadze, N.V.; Dzhibgashvili, N.I.; Kurashvili, N.G.; Shoniia, M.K.
Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 84(10): 1531-1533
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4588 PMID: 6506961 Document Number: 237308
Using clinical and experimental-psychological methods (a method of fixed orientation), the authors have studied 34 adolescents with continuous schizophrenia whose manifestation was attended by some exogenic factors (psychogenies, somatogenies, tox-infectious, and cranial traumas). The results obtained indicate some complications of psychopathological disturbances at the initial stage, manifesting in their marked acuteness, extension of the polymorphic spectrum and inclusion of heteronomous formations uncharacteristic of schizophrenia. A group of heteronomous manifestations should include sensorium disorders, pronounced emotional lability, general cerebral impairments, episodes of visual illusions and hallucinations, etc. The fixed orientation in the cases described is largely the same as in "nuclear" schizophrenia but some specificities, predominantly in the presence of psychogenic factors, are also observed.