Comparative clinico-psychological research on asthenic and sthenic remissions in attack-like schizophrenia
Abramova, L.I.; Kritskaia, V.P.; Meleshko, T.K.; Savina, T.D.
Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 87(7): 1050-1056
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4588 PMID: 3673385 Document Number: 294634
Using a clinico-psychological approach, personality changes have been studied in 40 patients with attack-like schizophrenia presenting asthenic (n = 22) or sthenic (n = 18) types of remissions. The common regularities have been identified, namely personality alterations of a superficial level with the preservation of "the nucleus of personality". In an asthenic type of remission the defect is total and all the main components of the personality are involved. This variant of schizophrenic defect is distinguished by impairment of the motivational-stimulating component of mental activity without reduction in its other components (exhaustion, fatigue, etc.) characteristic of asthenic syndromes of other etiology. In a sthenic type of remission personality changes are partial.