[Course of attack-like schizophrenia inlight of late catmnesis]

On the basis of remote follow-up checkings the author studied the development of attack-like schizophrenia with an onset before 40 years of age and proceeding in the form of clear-cut psychotic attacks up to senescence. Such forms of development seen in 86 patients permitted to conventionally eliminate 3 variants in attack-like schizophrenia (depending upon the prevalence of different tendencies); a) development of the "cliche type", b) with a simplified clinical picture and c) a clinical development with a complication of the repeated attacks. The study demonstrates that these changes in the development of the disease are mainly seen in certain periods of old age (involution, senescence).