[Features of the long-term course of young-onset schizophrenia: a clinical and follow-up study].

The severity of symptoms at all stages of the disease correlates with typological variants of conditions at the stage of long-term follow-up. In the first type, there is an accumulation of personality desorders and the most prognostically favorable variants of the initial stage, manifestations of psychotic states, the disease often manifests with only one episode and has a regressive character, the disease process fades quite quickly, mainly high-and medium-quality remissions are formed. In the second type, there is an accumulation of less favorable signs - prolonged variants of the initial stage with a predominance of negative disorders, hallucinatory-delusional manifestations of psychoses with exacerbations after 10-12 years, the high frequency of progressive forms of disease course and remissions of moderate to low quality. Type 3 is characterized by the most severe combinations of positive and negative symptoms, paranoid forms of the initial stage, paranoid and catatonic manifestations of psychoses, a high number of relapses at all stages of the course, low-quality remissions and frequent transition of the disease to a continuous form.