BackgroundIt is unclear whether outcome in schizoaffective disorders is more similar to schizophrenia or affective disorders.AimsTo provide longitudinal data on clinical course and outcome in schizoaffective disorders versus schizophrenia and affective disorders, and determine whether mood-incongruent psychotic symptoms have negative prognostic implications.MethodA total of 210 patients with schizoaffective disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar manic disorders and depression were assessed at hospitalisation and then followed up four times over 10 years.ResultsAt all four follow-ups, fewer patients with schizoaffective disorders than with schizophrenia showed uniformly poor outcome. Patients with mood-incongruent psychotic symptoms during index hospitalisation showed significantly poorer subsequent outcome (P< 0.05).ConclusionsSchizoaffective outcome was better than schizophrenic outcome and poorer than outcome for psychotic affective disorders. Mood-incongruent psychotic symptoms have negative prognostic implications. The results could fit a symptom dimension view of schizoaffective course.

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Asparagus prostratus Dumort., (wild asparagus) and A. officinalis L. (cultivated asparagus), often regarded as subspecies or varieties of a single species, have been confused for historical and nomenclatural reasons. A taxonomic review was carried out, and they were found to be distinct species which differ in morphology (characters retained in cultivation), cytology, distribution and ecology, and they are reproductively isolated. The tetraploid A. prostratus is unlikely to be the taxon from which the diploid A. officinalis evolved. Morphological descriptions are presented, and A. prostratus is lectotypified. A. prostratus is a western European endemic of coasts of Belgium,

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