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The Delineation of Schizophrenia from other Psychiatric Illnesses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Etely Ph. Kazanetz
Etely Ph. Kazanetz*
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4, apt. N 108, Pervyi Vrasakyi Pereuloka, Moscow 119121, USSR
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Abstract

Evidence is provided in support of the nosological concept which distinguishes schizophrenia from borderline states. Differentiation of these disorders by a computer pattern-recognition program was based on the initial descriptive characteristics of patients. As a result, we observed good correlation between computer diagnosis from data on 215 patients and follow-up data analysed according to the criteria of Kraepelin's model of schizophrenia and its course. According to the findings on outcome, the states designated as 'sluggish schizophrenia’ (or 'slowly developing variant of schizophrenia’) comprise a group of dissimilar psychiatric disorders, including borderline states and cases of process schizophrenia, with the specific initial symptoms of the latter disease.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 2 , August 1989 , pp. 160 - 165
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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