Bibliography and Abstracts on Schizophrenia

The abstracts that appear below are drawn from the computer-based information storage and retrieval system operated by the National Clearinghouse for Mental Health Information. They were selected for inclusion here on the basis of their direct relevance to schizo-phrenia. Judgments about the quality of the article or book abstracted have been left to the reader. Foreign titles have been translated and the city of the journal's origin noted. Languages that use neither the Latin nor Fraktur (German) alphabets (e.g., the Slavic languages) have been transliterated. Titles of articles, books, and infrequently cited journals have been translated from these languages, and all other identifying information appears in English in their citations. This collection is not exhaustive. The Clearinghouse routinely scans all mental health related literature, and its information system includes references to a great many articles of potential use to readers who are involved with research, training, or treatment in schizo-phrenia. Many of these references—notably reports of basic research—may not be published in the Bulletin, but are available from the Clearinghouse in other publications or through individually generated bibliographies. Because Psychopharmacology Abstracts publishes a comprehensive list of new articles on drug trials in schizo-phrenia monthly, only abstracts of those articles that review a number of psychopharmacological studies are published here. Mental health professionals or laypersons actively working in the mental health field who wish to request computer printouts of late references or comprehensive bibliographies on specific aspects of schizophrenia may write to the following address: Technical Informa-The articles described in these abstracts are not available from either the Clearinghouse or the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia. Ten of the Guilford tests of creative abilities wefe given to 50 schizophrenic patients. Creativity scores were correlated with overinclusion, activity withdrawal, vocabulary , age, and level of education. While level of education and vocabulary were positively related to creativity scores, overinclusion, activity withdrawal, and age tended to show the opposite trend. Future use of creativity tests in the study of schizophrenia was discussed. (16 references)— Author abstract. Asymmetry of information processing in hallucinators and nonhallucinators. Hallucinating and nonhallucinating schizophrenics and normal subjects were tested to determine differences in patterns of errors in trials which tested the effect of semantic integration and laterality on recall. Sentences of two levels of semantic integration (i.e., well integrated or poorly integrated) were presented to subjects monaurally, in the presence of binaural noise. The results from the hallucinating and …