[Characteristics of affective disorders in remission of paroxysmal-like schizophrenia].

Eighty-one patients were studied. In the attack-form of schizophrenia affective disorders could reflect the on-going slow or latent progression of the ailment during remissions. Otherwise it could represent the steady postprocessual shifts devoid of any signs of progressive course, or be a manifestation of either the protracted initial stage of a future attack or slow development of remission. Related to this, the clinical features of the affective disorders are variable and primarily dependent on the regularities of the underlying schizophrenic process. As the affective phases alternated and negative changes varied in strength, patients having different affective disorders attained different levels of social and labor adaptation.