[Initial disorders and premorbid personality characteristics in delusional psychoses].

In compliance with a special list of standartized signs, the nozological and typical differences in initial and premorbid personality traits were studied. These symptoms were correlated in 407 patients with delusional psychoses in the framework of schizophrenia, symptomatic disorders and epilepsy. The signs were assessed in accordance to the degree of their probability. The report contains a description of the most probable traits having a prognostical and differential diagnostical significance.