The Schedule of Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS) is described, including its potential applicability to insanity evaluations. A small sample (N = 28) of evaluations are examined with significant differences observed between sane and insane groups on over-all psychopathology, delusions and hallucinations.
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