[Clinical independence of cenestopathic schizophrenia]

Zh Nevropatol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova. 1980;80(4):586-92.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

A total of 101 cases of schizophrenia, proceeding with a prevalence of cenesthopathic disorders were studied. The following 3 types of the cenesthopathical syndrome were distinguished: cenesthoalgic, cenesthopathic and cenesthocoenesthetic, which actually present a continuum of morbid symptons. The successive transition from one state to another is a clinical reflection of the progression of a pathological process. The patients with cenesthopathic schizophrenia develop more profound negative changes in comparison to hypochondriacal schizophrenia. In 62% of the cases these changes lead to invalidization (according to epidemiological data). The results permit to consider the cenesthopathic schizophrenia as an independent variant of the disease.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypochondriasis / diagnosis
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pain
  • Schizophrenia / diagnosis*
  • Sensation
  • Social Adjustment
  • Syndrome