[Study of the clinical features of psychopathy-like schizophrenia in childhood and adolescence].

As a result of comparing the clinical course in 230 cases with psychopathlike schizophrenia, followed up on an average for 10 years, with 600 cases of psychopathies which are formed in adolescents, basic clinical characteristics, differentiating the first group from the second were detected and described. Age-associated time-course of morbid disorders in psychopathlike schizophrenia with an early onset, depending upon age crisis and phases of pubertal period was demonstrated. With the aid of special programmes, designed to solve the question of classification by a computer, a combination of factors comprising an optimal diagnostic complex for psychopathlike schizophrenia in adolescence was demonstrated.