Am J Psychiatry 1975; 132:741-742
Copyright © 1975 by American Psychiatric Association
Manic-depressive illness and good prognosis schizophrenia
MA Taylor and R Abrams
The authors examined 88 patients with an admission diagnosis of
schizophrenia for the presence of good and poor clinical prognostic signs
and related their findings to the clinical presentation, response to
somatic treatments, and prevalence of illness in first-degree relatives.
The results augment the growing evidence that good and poor prognosis
schizophrenia are different illnesses and that good prognosis schizophrenia
is frequently indistinguishable from manic-depressive illness.
