Early Onset Schizophrenia Associated With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Clinical Features and Correlates

Conclusions Adolescents with schizophrenia and OCD needed more antipsychotic doses for acute exacerbation and the maintenance of reduction of psychosis severity than adolescents with only schizophrenia. We could suggest that OCD comorbidity in schizophrenia is more treatment resistant, although the severity of the schizophrenia was similar between study groups. There was no correlation between OCD and schizophrenia symptoms either.
Source: Clinical Neuropharmacology - Category: Neurology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research