TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Cycloid psychosis as an independent diagnosis
JO  - Psiquiatría biológica (Barcelona, Spain)
A1  - Pérez García, M.
A1  - Morcillo, A.G.
A1  - Grau, A.P.
A1  - Lozano, M.J.M.
A1  - Mollá, P.M.
A1  - Díaz, S.N.T.
SP  - 230
EP  - 232
VL  - 14
IS  - 6
N2  - Several authors classify cycloid psychoses as a clearly defined group, with symptoms between schizophrenia and the affective psychoses, that is, these psychoses show schizophrenia-like symptoms and episodes that alternate between two poles (distress/happiness, incoherence/stupor or acinesia/hypercinesia). We report a case in which symptomatic variability was clearly observed, with alternation between two poles at each phase. Subsequent outcome confirmed the suspicion of cycloid psychosis, instead of bipolar disorder as the alternative diagnosis. Cycloid psychoses may regain their place as independent entities among psychiatric disorders. This paradigmatic situation represents a challenge to current psychopathological analysis due to the tendency of prevailing classifications to conflate diagnostic systems, assigning "rag-bag" labels to many clinical pictures, which are then considered in several categories without being clearly defined.<p /> <p>Language: es</p>
LA  - es
SN  - 1134-5934
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1134-5934(07)73289-x
ID  - ref1
ER  -