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Among competing hypotheses concerning the nature of schizoaffective disorder, perhaps the most broadly supported holds that most individuals with schizo-affective disorders have in fact either schizophrenia or an affective disorder (Brockington and Meltzer 1983). According to this view, the diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder is equivalent to “undiagnosed” with a limited differential. Patients grouped under this label are therefore diagnostically heterogeneous; some have affective disorder, some have schizophrenia, and some may have other, as yet unspecified disorders.
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Coryell, W. (1990). Schizoaffective Disorders: Interrelationships Between Familial Psychopathology, Neuroendocrine Assessments, and Outcome. In: Marneros, A., Tsuang, M.T. (eds) Affective and Schizoaffective Disorders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75353-4_16
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