Our bipolar and depression classes have no correlate, since their study excluded affective psychoses.
However, we found that quite a number of persons with schizophrenia (15 %) and other psychoses (8 %) achieved the highest educational level.
The figure was slightly lower for schizophrenia (9.4 %), and lower again (7.7 %) for non-affective, nonschizophrenic psychoses.
Higher functions are more impaired in psychoses, not less.
These findings support a shared genetic liability for both narrowly defined schizophrenia and broadly defined spectrum disorders including affective psychoses.
One additional goal is the attempt to establish new relationships between objective study findings (electroencephalograms) and biological disorders underlying the psychoses.
This demands that educationalists encourage a more complex understanding of depression, anxiety and psychoses as they manifest in older cohorts.
A detailed discussion of these psychoses is given.
