@article{Pliekhov_2021, title={Psychopathology structure of affective disturbances in patients with schizotypal disorder}, volume={11}, url={https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/JEHS.2021.11.07.018}, DOI={10.12775/JEHS.2021.11.07.018}, abstractNote={<p>The study of the structural features of the psychopathological symptomatology of schizophrenic spectrum disorders remains one of the most urgent topics in modern psychiatry; schizotypal disorder deserves special attention in this context. In order to identify the structural characteristics of affective disturbances in patients with schizotypal disorder, during 2019-2020, aprospective study of 128 patients with schizotypal disorder who were on outpatient treatment was conducted. By using clinical-anamnestic, clinical-psychopathological, psychodiagnostic and statistical methods it was revealed, that affective pathology has a significant prevalence among patients with schizotypal disorder, in the vast majority of cases it is represented by unipolar depressive symptoms, the intensity of which varies in a continuum from moderate severity of manifestations to their complete absence; in a quarter of cases affective psychopathological symptoms have a wider spectrum and reach hypomanic states; the prevalence of manic symptoms in the clinical picture lids to a partial elimination of the underlying disease symptoms; the psychopathological content of the affective sphere in one third of the examined patients with schizotypal disorder is represented by specific changes in the form of reduced affect display.</p>}, number={7}, journal={Journal of Education, Health and Sport}, author={Pliekhov, V.}, year={2021}, month={Jul.}, pages={195–200} }