Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-75dct Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-06T09:33:15.935Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Schizophrenia with Depression: Causal or Coexistent?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

David M. Ndetei  and
Amarjit Singh
David M. Ndetei
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, PO Box 30588, Nairobi, Kenya
Amarjit Singh
Affiliation:
Leeds University, Leeds
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary

Fifty-one schizophrenic patients diagnosed using the New Haven Schizophrenic Index and 29 other patients who did not score enough on this index for a diagnosis of schizophrenia were studied for depressive symptoms using the Present State Examination. There was no significant difference in the frequency of depressive symptoms in the two groups.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 141 , Issue 4 , October 1982 , pp. 354 - 356
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1982 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Astrachan, B. M., Harrow, M., Adler, D., Braver, L., Schwartz, A., Schwartz, C. & Tucker, G. (1972) A checklist for the diagnosis of schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry, 121, 529–39.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ayd, F. J. (1975) The depot fluphenazines: A reappraisal after ten years' clinical experience. American Journal of Psychiatry, 132, 491–500.Google Scholar
Bleuler, E. (1924) Textbook of Psychiatry. Translated by Brill, A. A. New York: MacMillan.Google Scholar
Falloon, I., Watt, D. C. & Shepherd, M. (1978) A comparative controlled trial of pimozide and fluphenazine decanoate in the continuation therapy of schizophrenia. Psychological Medicine, 8, 59–70.Google Scholar
Hirsch, S. R. (1982) Depression ‘revealed’ in schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry, 140, 421–3.Google Scholar
Johnson, D. A. W. (1981) Studies of depressive symptoms in schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry, 139, 89–101.Google Scholar
Kasanin, J. (1933) The acute schizo-affective psychoses. American Journal of Psychiatry, 13, 97–126.Google Scholar
Knights, A., Okasha, M. S., Salih, M. A. & Hirsch, S. R. (1979) Depressive and extrapyramidal symptoms and clinical effects: A trial of fluphenazine versus flupenthixol in maintenance of schizophrenic outpatients, British Journal of Psychiatry, 135, 515–23.Google Scholar
Knights, A. & Hirsch, S. R. (1981) ‘Revealed’ depression and drug treatment for schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry, 38, 806–11.Google Scholar
Mayer-Gross, W. (1920) Uber die Stellungsnahme auf abgelaufen akuten Psychose. Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychatrie, 60, 160–212.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ndetei, D. M. (1980) Psychiatry in Kenya: Yesterday, today and tomorrow: an Overview. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 62, 201–11.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Procci, W. R. (1976) Schizo-affective psychosis: Fact or fiction? Archives of General Psychiatry, 33, 1167–79.Google Scholar
Van Putten, T. & May, P. R. A. (1978) Akinetic depression in schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry, 35, 1101–7.Google Scholar
Wing, J. K., Cooper, J. E. & Sartorius, N. (1974) The Description and Classification of Psychiatric Symptoms: An Instruction Manual for the PSE and CATEGO System. London: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.