Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) Profiling in Schizoaffective Disorder.

CONCLUSION: With the ABR profiling test a minority of patients with schizoaffective disorder tested positive for schizophrenia. In contrast a majority (85%) of patients with schizophrenia in a previous study tested positive. These preliminary results leave us ignorant whether schizoaffective disorder should be regarded as a schizophrenia-like disorder or a psychotic mood disorder and add to the questions regarding the validity of this diagnostic entity. However, the ABR profiling method is still in its infancy and its exploration in a range of psychiatric disorders is warranted. PMID: 32063251 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Acta Neuropsychiatrica - February 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Acta Neuropsychiatr Source Type: research