Very early onset schizophrenia in a six years old boy: clinical manifestation and treatment

Abstract

Early-onset and very-early onset schizophrenia are relatively rare diagnoses in paedopsychiatry. Only a small number of cases with manifestation before tenth year of life have been reported.

Our case report describes a boy diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 6.5 years.

Keywords

• Schizophrenia
• children
• olanzapine
• ziprasidone