Schizoaffective disorders

found: Kaplan psych.: pp. 756-759(Schizoaffective disorders: "syndromes of depressive or manic features that develop before or concurrently with certain psychotic symptoms, such as a preoccupation with a mood-incongruent delusion or hallucination, or that begin immediately after the acute psychotic symptoms remit...Two kinds of psychotic symptoms are included in schizoaffective disorders: the first includes symptoms that are part of criterion list for schizophrenia...the second includes symptoms that arise in the context of an affective syndrome without an apparent relationship to depression or elation. Otherwise, clinical features consist of various mixtures of affective and schizophrenia-like symptoms.")

found: Walton dict. psychiatry, 1985: p. 150(Schizoaffective disorder see Schizoaffective schizophrenia)

found: Campbell psych. dict., 1985: p. 563(This category is used in DSM-III for questionable cases, in which the clinician is unable to make a differentiation between affective disorder and either schizophrenia or schizophreniform disorder)

found: WHO gloss. ment. disord. & guide to their classif. 8th rev. ed.(Schizo-affective psychosis; Mixed schizophrenic and affective psychosis; Schizophreniform psychosis, Affective type)

notfound: Dorland's med. dict.;Stedman's med. dict.;MESH;APA thesaurus, 1982;Psych. alma.;Rowe outline psych., 1970;NIH