[Early symptoms in schizophrenic patients in childhood and adolescence].

The work deals with the observation of courses of 26 cases of schizophrenia in childhood and youth treated in the children's departement of the district mental hospital of Uchtspringe from 1975 to 1982. Two thirds of the total number were conspicuous by characteristics of an organic brain damage and broken homes before going to school, partly already in infancy.