Gaizauskaite, G.2025-08-252025-08-252022-10-06Gaizauskaite G. Differential diagnosis of an adolescent between depression, substance related disorders and schizophrenia: case report / G. Gaizauskaite ; scientific adviser : E. Petrauskaite // IMEDSCOP 2022 : abstract book of 3th International Medical Students Conference in Poltava of Poltava State Medical University, Poltava, 6th October 2022. – Poltava, 2022. – P. 36.https://repository.pdmu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/27134Introduction: differentiating psychiatric conditions is complicated in children and adolescents because often symptoms are not stable and personalities of such patients haven’t finished to form yet. Schizophrenia in adolescents might just be starting to present and its symptoms in prodrome stage can be similar to symptoms of depression, bipolar disorder, substance–related disorders, some personality disorders and etc. We analyse a case of an adolescent whose condition worsened for 2 years despite treatment.enadolescentschizophreniaschizotypal personality disorderdepressionDifferential diagnosis of an adolescent between depression, substance related disorders and schizophrenia: case reportThesis