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Definition and Classification of Schizoaffective Disorders Based on Long-Term Course

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Affective and Schizoaffective Disorders

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The current conceptualization of schizoaffective disorders is fairly well synthesized by the definition proposed in the latest draft of the ICD-10 (World Health Organization 1989): “These are episodic disorders in which affective and schizophrenic symptoms are both prominent and present simultaneously.”

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, First Medical School, University of Naples, Piazza Miraglia 2, 80138, Napoli, Italy

    M. Maj

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Umeå, 90185, Umeå, Sweden

    C. Perris

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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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Maj, M., Perris, C. (1990). Definition and Classification of Schizoaffective Disorders Based on Long-Term Course. In: Marneros, A., Tsuang, M.T. (eds) Affective and Schizoaffective Disorders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75353-4_3

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