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Dexamethasone Suppression Test in Schizoaffective Disorders

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Affective and Schizoaffective Disorders

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The concept of schizoaffective disorder as a distinctive diagnostic entity is controversial (Maj et al. 1987). At one time, schizoaffective disorder was viewed primarily as a variant of schizophrenia. Wellner et al. (1974, 1977, 1979) reported that patients with schizoaffective disorder have a prognosis similar to that for patients with schizophrenia. They also found no prognostic significance for affective symptoms in patients with marked schizophrenic psychopathology.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3215, Durham, NC, 27710, USA

    B. J. Carroll

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  1. Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 5300, Bonn 1, Germany

    Andreas Marneros

  2. Harvard School of Medicine and Public Health, Brockton/West Roxbury VA Medical Center, 940 Belmont Street, Brockton, MA, 02401, USA

    Ming T. Tsuang M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc. (Professor and Director of Psychiatric Epidemiology) (Professor and Director of Psychiatric Epidemiology)

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Krishnan, K.R.R., Rayasam, K., Carroll, B.J. (1990). Dexamethasone Suppression Test in Schizoaffective Disorders. In: Marneros, A., Tsuang, M.T. (eds) Affective and Schizoaffective Disorders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75353-4_19

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