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Published on: November 21, 2013
[Clinical characteristics of initial stages of schizotypal disorder]
Abstract:
The study of clinical-psychopathological characteristics of initial stages of schizotypal disorder was carried out on a sample of 54 male inpatients. Based on the results of clinical-psychopathological and follow-up studies, authors found that symptoms of initial stages of schizotypal disorder presented by non-psychotic depressive disorders. Dissociation of depressive symptoms, heterogeneity and unsteadiness of leading affect, marked polymorphism of depressive presentations, presence of concomitant neurotic-like and psychopathic-like disorders are characteristic of these depressive disorders. Five clinical variants of states described in the initial stages of disease are singled out: depression with symptom- complex of asthenic incompetence (25.9%), apathic-adynamic depression (27.7%), anxiety-depressive (16.6%), depersonalization-depressive (20.4%) states, hypochondriac depressions (9.3%).
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