[Follow-up study of episodic schizophrenia with a depressive-paranoid syndrome in the manifest period].

Long-term (from 10 to 25 years) clinical follow up of 60 patients suffering from schizophrenia was carried out. On the basis of observing groups of patients with various gravity of the disease course it was found that of importance for the prognosis were (apart from the structure of the paroxysms in the manifest period) premorbid peculiarities of the patient's personality and some pre-manifest disturbances, such as early personality changes, transitory hallucinatory and delusional disturbances, etc.