Schizophrenia and intercurrent physical illness: A critical review of the literature

Lipper, Steven; Werman, David S.

doi:10.1016/s0010-440x(77)80003-5

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“…Koranyi [1972] found only 2 cases of bronchial asthma and dermatitis among 100 psychiatric outpatients. Simi larly, a lower incidence of asthma, hay fever and other allergic phenomena has been reported by Ehrentheil [1957], and by Lipper and Werman [1977]. The prelimi nary report by Baldwin [ 1979] indicated low relative risks for these conditions but significantly increased risks fol lowing manic depressive illness.…”

Section: Allergymentioning

confidence: 95%

Relationship between Schizophrenia and Psychosomatic Illness: A Review

Ananth¹,

Engelsmann²

1984

Neuropsychobiology

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For centuries, a relationship between physical illness and mental illness has been assumed. Following this lead, many reports of an inverse relationship between a number of physical disorders and schizophrenia have appeared. Particularly, the low rates of occurrence of certain psychosomatic illnesses in schizophrenic patients seem to indicate a certain biological and psychodynamic basis. These associations are important in that they may unravel important etiological relationships. Furthermore, they are amenable to testing by epidemiological investigations. Hence there is a need to pursue these studies. The current data no doubt provide impetus for further work and directions for future studies. Well controlled and methodologically sound studies in this area may be of immense value in our understanding of the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.

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Section: Allergymentioning

confidence: 95%

Relationship between Schizophrenia and Psychosomatic Illness: A Review

Ananth¹,

Engelsmann²

1984

Neuropsychobiology

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“…Conditions where the effects of malaria lead not to the manifestation of psychopathology, but to its resolution, have also been recognized (Lipper and Werman 1977). Wagner-Jauregg's (1922) treatment of neurospyhilis by inducing fever with malaria provides such an example (Delgado 1922;Pilcz 1923;see also Zilboorg 1941:551).…”

Section: His Torical Con Textmentioning

confidence: 99%

The interrelationship of tropical disease and mental disorder: conceptual framework and literature review (part I ? malaria)

Weiss

1985

Cult Med Psych

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Substantial interactions between tropical diseases and psychiatric illness have long been recognized, but the impact of biological factors in the field of cross-cultural psychiatry has been less well studied than psychosocial factors. In reviewing the literature at the intersection of tropical medicine and psychiatry in order to summarize the existing data base in this field, a generalized interactive model informed by the theoretical contributions of George Engel, the WHO Scientific Working Group on Social and Economic Research, Arthur Kleinman, P. M. Yap, Edward Sapir and others has been developed to serve as a conceptual framework for this analysis of the literature and to guide further research. The clinical literature of tropical medicine and psychiatry which recognizes the significance of concurrent tropical disease and mental disorders is reviewed along with the more specific literature on malaria and concomitant psychiatric illness. Many authors have focused on the role of organic mental disorders, especially in connection with cerebral malaria, but several have also addressed psychosocial parameters through which the interrelationship between malaria and a full range of mental disorders is also mediated. The effects of malaria may serve as biological, psychological or social stressors operating in a cultural context which precipitate or shape features of psychiatric symptomatology. Psychiatric illness may likewise precipitate an episode of malaria with typical symptoms in a patient with a previously subclinical infection. Implications of the literature and this generalized interactive model are considered as they apply to clinical practice, public health and the application of social science theory in medicine.

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“…There have been many reports of reduced incidence of asthma, hay fever, and other allergic phenomena in schizophrenics (Ehrentheil, 1957;Lipper and Werman, 1977). There are many case reports of alternating psychotic and allergic states and others in which allergy and psychosis 'coexisted' (Sabbath & Luce, 1952).…”

Section: Asthma and Hay Fevermentioning

confidence: 99%