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Schizoaffective and Schizophreniform Disorders

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The term “Schizoaffective Disorder” has been variously defined but has been generally applied to individuals in whom features of schizophrenia and a mood disorder coexist. Studies of phenomenology, clinical course, and heritability, have, when taken together, yielded results consistent with the view that a majority of individuals who meet criteria for schizoaffective disorder, in fact, have either schizophrenia or a mood disorder with psychotic features and that a minority suffer from a geneotypic concurrence of both illnesses. The treatment of individuals with schizoaffective disorder should initially assume the presence of a psychotic mood disorder, however.

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