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Schizoaffective disorder: diagnostic issues and future recommendations.
Bipolar disorders - 1 Feb 2008
Malhi Gin S, Green Melissa, Fagiolini Andrea, Peselow Eric D, Kumari Veena
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OBJECTIVE: Difficulties surrounding the classification of mixed psychotic and affective syndromes continue to plague psychiatric nosology. This paper addresses the controversy regarding the diagnostic validity of schizoaffective disorder (SAD), a diagnosis that is used in both DSM-IV and ICD-10 and one that encroaches on both schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD). METHODS: A systematic synthesis of...
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