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276 PSYCHIATRIKI 21 (4), 2010The concept of a psychotic continuum is also of practical relevance for the patients. The “overlap of thespectra” has a significant impact on the disorder and its effects on the patients, where as at the same time is animportant stimulation for clinical, biological and genetical research on the psychotic continuum.ReferencesAndreas MarnerosProfessor and Head, Department of Psychiatry,Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Martin LutherUniversity Halle-Wittenberg• Bora E, Yucel M, Fornito A, Berk M, Pantelis C. Major psychoses with mixed psychotic and mood symptoms: Are mixedpsychoses associated with different neurobiological markers? Acta Psychiatr Scandinav 2008, 118:172–187• Cheniaux E, Landeira-Fernandez J, Lessa Telles L, Lessa JL, Dias A, Duncan T et al. Does schizoaffective disorder really exist?A systematic review of the studies that compared schizoaffective disorder with schizophrenia or mood disorders. J Affect Disord2008, 106:209–217• Craddock N, Owen MJ. Rethinking psychosis: the disadvantages of a dichotomous classification now outweigh the advantages.Wrld Psychiatry 2007, 6:20–27• Marneros A, Akiskal HS. The Overlap of Affective and Schizophrenic Spectra. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.• Marneros A, Goodwin FK. Bipolar disorders. Mixed States, Rapid Cycling and Atypical Forms. Cambridge, Cambridge UniversityPress, 2005• Pillmann F, Marneros A. Acute and transient psychotic disorders. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004