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CORTES-VEGA, Aurora; CHAVEZ-MARTINEZ, Emmanuel A.; OCHOA-MADRIGAL, Marta G.  y  MENESES-LUNA, Oscar. Schizophrenia in Adolescents: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge. Rev. Fac. Med. (Méx.) [online]. 2024, vol.67, n.6, pp.8-16.  Epub 07-Feb-2025. ISSN 2448-4865.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fm.24484865e.2024.67.6.02.

Schizophrenia is perhaps the pathology most commonly associated with the medical branch of psychiatry, however, it only affects 1%1 of the general population, but due to the broad and striking clinical picture, it has become for the population and professionals of health, a topic of interest. Presentations in the infant-juvenile population are associated with varied clinical symptoms, with greater impact on school life, propensity for inadequate response to treatment, greater presentation of side effects and greater cognitive impairment. In this case report, it presents an adolescent with a complex perinatal history, difficulties with socialization, depressive-type affective symptoms with subsequent appearance of severe psychotic symptoms that caused dysfunction in multiple areas, affecting comprehensive development and compromising her quality of life2. The approach to the presentation of a psychotic disorder at an early age, follow-up over time and the importance of making adjustments in the pharmacological treatment until the medication with which the symptomatology is better controlled is explored, considering the importance of avoiding side effects derived from the use of antipsychotics in infant-juvenile patients, where the range of possible treatments is still limited.

Palabras llave : Hallucinations; schizophrenia; adolescents; cognitive impairments; case report.

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