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Schizophrenia–schizoaffective–bipolar spectra: an epistemological perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2019

João Gama Marques Open the ORCID record for João Gama Marques [Opens in a new window]  and
Sílvia Ouakinin
João Gama Marques*
Affiliation:
Clínica Universitária de Psiquiatria e Psicologia Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal Hospital Júlio de Matos, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Sílvia Ouakinin
Affiliation:
Clínica Universitária de Psiquiatria e Psicologia Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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*Author for correspondence: João Gama Marques, Email: joaogamamarques@gmail.com
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Abstract

For decades clinicians and researchers have been thinking and writing about the spectrum of schizophrenia disorders. Indeed both Kraepelin and Bleuler believed in schizophrenia as a spectrum, both in a clinical (individual) and hereditary (family) continuum, from just some exquisite personality traits to unquestionable chronic and debilitating psychosis. Other authors would put the schizophrenia spectrum disorders on different levels of continuum: developmental, psychofunctional, existential, and genetic. Here, we would like to present an historical chronology for the schizophrenia–schizoaffective–bipolar spectra plus a tridimensional model for these spectra: the first axis for categories (affective versus nonaffective psychoses), the second axis for dimensions (personality versus full blown psychosis), and a third axis for biomarkers (remission versus relapse). We believe that without the schizophrenia–schizoaffective–bipolar spectra concept in our minds all our efforts will keep failing one the hardest quest: searching for biomarkers in schizophrenia and related disorders.

Keywords

Schizophreniaschizoaffectivebipolarspectrumpsychosis
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Perspective
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CNS Spectrums , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , June 2021 , pp. 197 - 201
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© Cambridge University Press 2019

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