Stability of Symptom Ratings for Schizophrenic Men

Childhood social competence in functionally disordered psychiatric patients and in normals.

“…Table 1 presents the 10 most frequent symptoms among each of the diagnostic groups. Aside from the predominance of anxiety and depression in all the hospitalized patients (a finding reported by others; see Wittenborn, 1977), each group presents a symptom picture consistent with its diagnosis. Understandably, a systematic basis for differentiating neurotic from personality-disordered patients is elusive.…”

Recovery From Schizophrenia: A Review of Patterns of Psychosis

“…He noted that some patients retained some "psychotic residua" during this phase for 1 to 8 weeks before the onset of the postpsychotic depression syndrome. It thus appears that his patients experienced an absolute decline in overall psychopathology for a period before the phase of postpsychotic depression brought about another general increase in psychopathology-a transient peak (average duration, 3 months) similarly reported by a variety of other investigators (Steinberg, Green, and Durell 1967;Stern, Pillsbury, and Sonnenberg 1972;Semrad, Grinspoon, and Fienberg 1973;Wittenborn 1977;Dencker et al 1978).…”

“…During this time, symptom reduction in the third, hypomanic-like factor ("psychomotor") was less notable than that obtained for the other three factors, which declined fairly smoothly. Factor 4 ("neurotic") showed an interesting transitory peak Instrument used in Wittenborn (1977).…”

“…at the 6-month point, possibly indicating the postpsychotic depression to be discussed later. Finally, Wittenborn (1977) rated 5 the symptoms of 75 schizophrenic men on five occasions over a period of 2 years in an investigation of the effects of niacin used as a supplement to the "usual" treatment of schizophrenia. On admission, the patients' scores on the symptom clusters of anxiety, depressive retardation, schizophrenic excitement, paranoia, and compulsive-obsessive features were much higher than on the remaining clusters.…”