[Characteristics of early childhood schizophrenia proceeding with astheno-adynamic, adynamic and affective-catatonic attacks (a clinico-catamnestic study)].

Clinico-catamnestic approach was applied to study 40 children with early schizophrenia with astheno-adynamic, adynamic and affective-catatonic attacks. Catamnesis duration was 15 to 20 years. The authors describe the psychopathologic disorders and their repercussion around astheno-adynamic, adynamic, affective-catatonic attacks within four age periods: under 1 year, 1 to 4 years, 5 to 10 years, 11 to 17 and older. The remission structure and quality was clarified, its stage-by-stage development and defect types characterized. The described version of early child paroxysmal schizophrenia had relatively favorable prognosis: clear regression in 45% of the cases relative regression with shift to symptom-depleted steady level in 55%.