...Petter Holmesland; Christian Astrup A series of 67 pseudoneurotic and pseudopsychopathic schizophrenics were followed up. The prognosis was good insofar as these psychoses do not develop schizophrenic deterioration. Complete recoveries are rare, as borderline characteristics tend to persist. We...

...Hedvig-Elisabeth Refsum; Christian Astrup 93 cases of reactive depression have been followed up in order to investigate the long-term course of illness. By independent classifícation of reactive and endogenous depressions the authors agreed on diagnosis for 94%. Ten subgroups of reactive...

...K. Flekkøy; I. Lund; C. Astrup 148 chronic schizophrenics admitted between 1938 and 1961 had previously been followed up. In 1972, they were re-examined, on the average 10 years after the first follow-up. 44 belonged to a series of patients studied between 1955 and 1957 with a battery...

... patients and a sample of chronic schizophrenics (n = 261) tested 16 years ago. The findings were attributed to effects of psychotropic drugs and improved psychiatric treatment. Schizophrenia Follow-ups Word associations Long-term improvement Variability of performance Drug effects © 1975 S...

...Christian Astrup; Helge Vårum Among 1,678 functional psychoses followed up, 35 had parents, uncles, aunts or grandparents with 2 or more cases diagnosed as schizophrenic psychoses, or 2 or more secondary relatives diagnosed as non-schizophrenic psychoses. Comparisons of unilateral and bilateral...