A group of 62 patients treated with schizophrenia for the first time was examined. Connection between the IQ, the type or interests, Bleulers' primary symptoms and Schneider's criteria was analyzed. A number of dependence factors were discovered, what allowed to draw conclusions about the role of intelligence and interest in patients' first manifestation of schizophrenia.

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[Comparative studies of the effects of perazine, fluphenazine, trifluoperazine, chlorpromazine and haloperidol on primary and deficit symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia].

In order to evaluate the influence of some neuroleptics on unproductive symptoms of schizophrenic process, first hospitalized patients with paranoid schizophrenia underwent monotherapy with perazine, fluphenazine, trifluoroperazine, chlorpromazine, and haloperidol. All the drugs eliminated the productive activity of the disease process within 2 months in both women and men aged 18-40 years. However, drugs showed different qualitative and quantitative effects on unproductive symptoms of schizophrenic process; this fact allows the suggestion regarding the particular usefulness of drugs in the out-patient care.

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[The influence of information on the diagnosis of short-term prognosis in schizophrenia].

Data was collected from 60 patients ill for the first time with schizophrenia. In 30 cases a nosological diagnosis was given while in the rest of the patients a syndrome diagnosis was placed. In the follow-up conducted 3 years later it was revealed that the groups basically do not differ from each other in the course of the illness or the clinical picture but they do differ from each other in their job adjustment.

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