Article
Self-reported psychosis-like symptoms and the continuum of psychosis.
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology - 1 Sept 1999
van Os J, Verdoux H, Maurice-Tison S, Gay B, Liraud F, Salamon R, Bourgeois M
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BACKGROUND: It has been suggested that psychotic symptoms may be distributed along a continuum that extends from normality through depressive states to schizophrenia with increasing level of severity. This study examined the hypothesis that the severity of positive psychotic symptoms increases from normality, through depression/anxiety states to clinical psychosis. METHODS: Consecutive general practice attenders...
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