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Alcoholism followed by schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Hays P.,
Aidroos N.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1986.tb10604.x
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychosis , etiology , psychiatry , psychology , alcohol abuse , clinical psychology , substance abuse , medicine
— On the basis of findinps of earlier workers, and our own unsystematic observations, we put forward the hypothesis that alcohol abuse was an important etiological factor in some schizophrenia‐like psychoses. We tested the hypothesis by comparing schizophrenic patients who had abused alcohol with schizophrenic patients who had not. The findings generally support the hypothesis, and indicate that a chronic psychosis distinguishable by a hallucinatory onset and, at its height, by visual hallucinations, may be one of the complications of alcohol abuse.