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Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in Schizophrenia: More than Just a Chance Co-occurrence

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Although we often study patients with schizophrenia and make treatment inferences thereupon in study populations that exclude patients with comorbid psychiatric conditions, the latter group is a clinical conundrum and is more common than represented in clinical practice. This “greater than chance” co-occurrence is not by chance. Reasons for this are enumerated in this chapter. There are also clear implications for understanding and treatment of these complex presentations. This chapter sets the stage and focuses on core themes as exemplified by obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

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  1. Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, 1120 15th Street, AA-1002, Augusta, GA, 30912, USA

    Peter F. Buckley MD

  2. Department of Psychiatry (116A), New York Medical College, F.D.R VAMC, Montrose, New York, NY, 10548, USA

    Michael Y. Hwang MD

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  1. Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Frederike Schirmbeck

  3. Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

    Mathias Zink

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Buckley, P.F., Hwang, M.Y. (2015). Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders in Schizophrenia: More than Just a Chance Co-occurrence. In: De Haan, L., Schirmbeck, F., Zink, M. (eds) Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Schizophrenia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12952-5_1

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