Schizophrenia, the Great Imitated Syndrome Mimicked by Many Imitators
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychiatric, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 1888
Special Issue Editors
2. Consulta de Esquizofrenia Resistente, Hospital Júlio de Matos, Unidade Local de Saúde São José, Centro Clínico Académico de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
3. Homeless Outreach Psychiatric Engagement for Lisbon, Santé Mentale et Exclusion Sociale, Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: psychosis; schizophrenia; schizoaffective; homeless
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to submit articles to our Special Issue of Behavioral Sciences titled “Schizophrenia, the Great Imitated Syndrome Mimicked by Many Imitators”.
Schizophrenia is mimicked by many medical and surgical conditions, some of them great imitators, and others small. The list of these mimickers is very long, and many clinicians, academics and researchers unfortunately have no resources to exclude all of them properly. Classic historical concepts like secondary schizophrenia, pseudo-schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like psychosis have been proposed for decades, as many authors worldwide have recognized that, at least in some patients, schizophrenia could be symptomatic of another medical or surgical condition. Nevertheless, we are afraid these efforts have little impact on the daily praxis of clinical, academic and research settings. Therefore, we propose a Special Issue totally dedicated to the differential diagnosis of primary schizophrenia, true schizophrenia, or idiopathic schizophrenia versus secondary schizophrenia, pseudo-schizophrenia or schizophrenia-like psychosis.
Dr. João Gama Marques
Dr. Martin M. Schumacher
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- schizophrenia
- pseudo-schizophrenia
- schizophrenia-like psychosis
