[Several features of the course of attack-like schizophrenia (according to the findings of an epidemiologic study)].

The authors studied patients with an attack-like course and a "cliche" type course (i.e. the psychopathological structure of attacks does not change within the disease). In spite of the differences in the clinical picture of the attacks, the studied patients slightly differed in age, onset of the 1st attack, number of sick male- and female patients, correlation between the age at the onset of the 1st attack and sex, number of previous attacks and continuation of remissions. A direct correlational dependance between the character of productive disturbances and the depth of negative changes in remissions and the clinical picture of psychotic attacks was observed.