scholarly journals Comorbid Anxiety in Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder

10.5772/60643 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delia M. Podea ◽  
Aurora I. Sabau ◽  
Karol J. Wild
Keyword(s):  
Schizoaffective Disorder ◽  
Comorbid Anxiety

Turner Mosaicism and Schizoaffective Disorder

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Katherine Backes ◽  
Tiffany Christian ◽  
Gaurava Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Schizoaffective Disorder

Insight: Demographic Differences and Associations with One-Year Outcome in Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Wiffen ◽  
Jonathan Rabinowitz ◽  
W. Fleischhacker ◽  
Anthony David
Keyword(s):  
Schizoaffective Disorder ◽  
Demographic Differences ◽  
One Year

DSM-III criteria for affective disorders and schizophrenia : A preliminary appraisal using family interview findings

1988 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-169
Author(s):  
H.G. Pope ◽  
B.M. Cohen ◽  
J.F. Lipinski ◽  
D. Yurgelun-Todd
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Affective Disorder ◽  
Schizoaffective Disorder ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Diagnostic Interview ◽  
Diagnostic Categories ◽  
Family Interview ◽  
Small Test ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
Interview Studies

SummaryWe performed a blind family interview study of 226 first-degree relatives of 63 probands meeting DSM-III criteria for schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder, as diagnosed by the National Institute ot Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS). A small test-retest reliability study demonstrated good agreement between the proband interviewer and the principal family interviewer for the major diagnostic categories of psychotic disorders. Excellent compliance was obtained, with 85% of living relatives interviewed personally.Three principal findings emerged front the study. First, as expected, bipolar disorder, as defined by DSM-III, displayed a strong familial comportent, comparable to that found by many studies using criteria other than those of DSM-III. Second, patients meeting DSM-III criteria for schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder displayed a low familial prevalence of schizophrenia. Although initially suprising, this finding is in agreement with the results of several other recent lantily studies of schizophrenia. Upon comparing our results with those of other recent family studies of schizophrenia, it appears that the familial component in schizophrenia tnay be less than was estimated by earlier studies using older and “broader” definitions of schizophrenia.Third, we found that patients meeting DSM-III criteria for schizophrenia appeared genetically heterogeneous. Those who had displayed a superimposed full affective syndrome at some tinte in the course of their illness, together with those probands meeting DSM-III criteria for schizoaffective disorder, displayed a high familial prevalence of major affective disorder, similar to that found in the families of the bipolar probands. On the other hand, “pure” DSM-III schizophrenie probands, who had never experienced a superimposed full affective syndrome, displayed a low familial prevalence of major affective disorder, similar to that found in the general population. These findings favor the possibility that probands meeting DSM-III criteria for schizophrenia, but displaying a superimposed full affective syndrome, may in sonie cases have a disorder genetically relatcd to major affective disorder.Further prospective family interview studies, using DSM-III criteria and larger samples, will be necessary to test these preliminary impressions.

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