An attempt at differential diagnosis of non-affective functional psychoses through neuropsychological assessment in a Congolese sample KU Leuven
Objectives: Schizophrenia, Schizophreniform Disorder and Brief Psychotic Disorder constitute the main part of non-affective functional psychoses of the forth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). The DSM-IV primarily recognizes the same symptoms in them; it differentiates them only by the disease duration. It is thus difficult to make the differential diagnosis of the three affections at the beginning of the ...