Pre-morbid and outcome correlates of first episode mania with psychosis: is a distinction between schizoaffective and bipolar I disorder valid in the early phase of psychotic disorders?

  • Philippe Conus
  • Amal Abdel-Baki
  • Susy Harrigan
  • Martin Lambert
  • Patrick D McGorry
  • Michael Berk

Abstract

The validity of schizoaffective disorder (SA) diagnosis has for long been a matter of controversy and its delineation from bipolar I disorders (BD) has often been questioned. However, most studies have been conducted in chronic samples and have therefore been biased towards patients with poorer outcome, which may have hampered the possibility to identify significant differences between both diagnoses.

Bibliografische Daten

OriginalspracheDeutsch
Aufsatznummer1-2
ISSN0165-0327
StatusVeröffentlicht - 2010
pubmed 20434220