Citation

Bron B, Fröscher W, Gehlen W. Fortschr. Neurol. Psychiatr. Grenzgeb. 1976; 44(12): 673-682.

Vernacular Title

Differentialdiagnostische und syndromgenetische Probleme und Aspekte drogeninduzierter Psychosen bei Jugendlichen

Copyright

(Copyright © 1976, Georg Thieme Verlag)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1051411

Abstract

Acute and chronic psychotic states in juvenile drug addicts demand careful observation of syndrome-genetic and differential diagnostic factors. Not only the diagnosis of a schizophrenic or affective juvenile psychosis and their differentiation from phase-specific developmental crises may often be difficult. A further problematic field are special aspects of symptomatic psychoses and particularly states due to drug addiction with hashish, LSD and amphetamines and the effect of drugs on already existing endogenous psychoses. This demands subtile phenomenologic description and syndrome-genetic assessment. One will have to take into account the complexity of drug effects and whether a psychosis existed already before addiction, whether drugs have provoked a latent psychosis, whether a purely symptomatic psychosis mimics a schizophrenia or whether irreversible personality changes with secondary psychotic behavior have developed.

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