In my opinion, the answer to this question depends on how you view the
diagnosis of schizophrenia. For example, I have worked with several persons
who developed psychosis after a head injury. The symptoms were mostly
paranoid delusions, (without auditory hallucinations), and various
social/behavior and impulse control problems. In the research we were doing
at the time, we did not consider these patients as having "true"
schizophrenia. As I recall, their symptoms were mostly "negative" type,
their premorbid history was fairly normal (e.g., before the head injury)
and they did not respond well to typical anti-psychotic medications. In
general, their presentation was different than what we considered "true"
schizophrenic patients that were at the hospital.
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