Is the Current Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Useful or Harmful? - Open Journal of Medical Psychology

OJMP > Vol.3 No.2, January 2014

Is the Current Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Useful or Harmful? ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ojmp.2014.32018 4,350 Downloads 8,496 Views Citations

Author(s)

Javier Alvarez-Rodriguez, Sergio Alvarez-Silva, Iria Alvarez-Silva

Affiliation(s)

Servicio de Psiquiatría, Complejo Asistencial Universitario, León, Spain.
Servicio de Psiquiatría, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain.

ABSTRACT

In recent decades, evidence has appeared in various scientific fields—genetic, psychopharmacological, neuro-psychological, etc.—which makes it difficult to maintain the positive and negative syndrome of schizophrenia under one and the same diagnosis. On the other hand, there are social and legal reasons recommending the conception of these two syndromes as different entities. In this paper, we conduct appropriate bibliographical researches to reveal these evidences. We discuss these findings and conclude proposing the split of positive and negative syndromes of schizophrenia in two different disorders.

KEYWORDS

Antisocial Personality Disorder; Drug Abusers; Genetic Markers; Neurocognitive Deficits; Negative Syndrome; Positive Symptoms

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J. Alvarez-Rodriguez, S. Alvarez-Silva and I. Alvarez-Silva, "Is the Current Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Useful or Harmful?," Open Journal of Medical Psychology, Vol. 3 No. 2, 2014, pp. 157-160. doi: 10.4236/ojmp.2014.32018.

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