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Psychiatry Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders 93f82140

Schizophrenia with late onset and good prognosis:

A
Simple schizophrenia
B
Hebephrenic schizophrenia
C
Catatonic schizophrenia
D
Paranoid schizophrenia
High-Yield Explanation
Paranoid schizophrenia It is the most common type of schizophrenia , having late onset and good prognosis. Age of onset: late 3rd and early 4th decade Onset:insidious characterized mainly by presence of delusion of persecution, reference, grandeur, frequent auditory hallucinations etc -Best prognosis : Catatonic schizophrenia - Worst prognosis: Simple schizophrenia - In DSM-5 and proposed ICD-11, all the subtypes (paranoid, catatonic etc.) have been removed from the classification.

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