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Childhood and adult schizophrenia: Some clinical and experimental comparisons |
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| Authors: | Joseph Wortis Eugene A. Sersen Iver Floistad Christian Astrup |
| Affiliation: | 1. State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York State Institute for Research in Mental Retardation, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway 2. Tromso University, Tromso, Norway 3. Division of Child and Human Development, Health Sciences Center, 11790, Stony Brook, N. Y. 4. New York State Institute for Research in Mental Retardation, 1050 Forest Hill Road, 10314, Staten Island, New York 5. Oslo University, Eugeniesgate 18, Oslo, Norway |
| Abstract: | The literature does not provide convincing evidence that childhood schizophrenia starting before age 11 represents the same disease process as adult schizophrenia, with regard to clinical symptomatology, genetic background and course of illness, and childhood schizophrenia seldom appears to involve long term schizophrenic deterioration. Our sample of 31 childhood schizophrenics studied with a battery of a motor conditional reflex tests, an autonomic conditioning test and a word association test did not present symptoms comparable to those seen in a group of adult schizophrenics tested with similar procedures. Supported by grant HDO1095 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. |
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