Very early-onset schizophrenia with secondary onset tic disorder

Abstract

Very early-onset schizophrenia (defined as an onset of psychosis before 13 years of age) is a rare and severe form of the disorder which is clinically and neurobiologically continuous with the adult-onset disorder. It is rarely reported <12 years of age in Indian literature. Here, we present a 15-year-old boy who developed psychosis at 9 years of age and during illness developed tic disorder.

Keywords

• Haloperidol
• tic disorder
• Tourette syndrome
• very early-onset schizophrenia