Successful Use of Adjuvant Phytoestrogens in Schizoaffective Disorder

Successful use of adjuvant phytoestrogens in schizoaffective disorder: a case report.

Schizoaffective Disorder : Consistency of Diagnosis

Seventy six, first episode, drug naive patients of schizoaffective disorder, diagnosed as per DSM-III-R criteria, were followed up over a period of two years in order to verify the consistency of diagnosis. It was observed that only in 14 (18.4%) patients diagnosis did not change over a period of two years. In the majority of the patients (47, 61.9%) the diagnosis changed to schizophrenia. Eigh...

Thalamic morphology in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.

BACKGROUND Biomarkers are needed that can distinguish between schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder to inform the ongoing debate over the diagnostic boundary between these two disorders. Neuromorphometric abnormalities of the thalamus have been reported in individuals with schizophrenia and linked to core features of the disorder, but have not been similarly investigated in individuals wit...

Longitudinal courses of thought disorder in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.

This research examined the longitudinal courses of thought disorder in schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and other psychotic and nonpsychotic disorders. One-hundred-eighty young psychiatric inpatients were prospectively diagnosed at an early stage of illness and followed up and evaluated for thought disorder at 2, 4.5, and 7.5 years post-index hospitalization. Patterns of thought disorde...

Lamotrigine in the treatment of schizoaffective disorder.

There is accumulating evidence for the efficacy of lamotrigine in the treatment of bipolar disorder, including bipolar depression, both as monotherapy and in combination with sodium valproate. We present the cases of 3 female patients admitted to our hospital with the diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder who were treated with lamotrigine. While dosages up to 200 mg/day, resulting in serum conc...