Oneiroid syndrome

Oneiroid syndrome

Oneiroid syndrome, from the Ancient Greek "ὄνειρος" (oneiros, meaning "dream"), and "εἶδος" (eidos, meaning "form, likeness") is an element of the catatonic form of schizophrenia and presents with a dream-like or nightmare-like state as a background of intensive psychopathological experiences.

Oneiroid states were first described by the German physician Meyer-Gross in 1928, mainly statistically.

Later in 1961 the Bulgarian psychiatrist S.T. Stoyanov[1] studied the dynamics and the course of the oneiroid syndrome in "periodic", or remittant schizophrenia (ICD-10).

According to this research the syndrome has six stages in its course:

  1. initial general-somatic and vegetative disorder
  2. delusional mood
  3. affective-delusional depersonalisation and derealisation
  4. fantastic-delusional and affective depersonalisation and derealisation
  5. illusional depersonalisation and derealisation, and
  6. catatonic-oneiroid state in the culmination.[2]

The prognosis of oneiroid catatonia is optimal, in comparison with lucid catatonia.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Stoianov ST (1961). "[On the clinical aspects and psychopathology of oneiroid states arising during the course of schizophrenia]" (in Russian). Zh Nevropatol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova 61: 1370–7. PMID 13917348. 
  2. ^ Semenov SF, Pashutova EK (1978). "Clinical features and differential diagnosis of puerperal schizophrenic psychoses". Neurosci. Behav. Physiol. 9 (1): 39–44. PMID 748822. http://www.springerlink.com/index/M8857763174102L3.pdf. 

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