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Cognitive deficits in schizophrenia on the WAIS‐R NI sentence arrangement subtest
Author(s) -
Gard Diane,
Harrell Ernest H.,
Poreh Amir
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199909)55:9<1085::aid-jclp6>3.0.co;2-g
Subject(s) - psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , sentence , cognition , wechsler adult intelligence scale , frontal lobe , cognitive deficit , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , audiology , psychiatry , cognitive impairment , medicine , linguistics , philosophy
Performance of participants diagnosed with schizophrenia on the Sentence Arrangement subtest of the WAIS‐R NI and several tests sensitive to frontal lobe dysfunction was significantly poorer than that of manic depressive or control participants. Several measures of performance of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia on the WAIS‐R NI Sentence Arrangement subtest appeared to support recent interpretations of the cognitive deficit seen in schizophrenia. These data represent the first demonstration of deficit performance by patients with schizophrenia on the Sentence Arrangement subtest. This is also supportive of the prediction that one of the areas whose activity may influence scores on this subtest is the prefrontal cortex. In addition, neither positive nor negative symptoms systematically correlated with the cognitive deficits reported despite specific predictions from the current literature. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 55: 1085–1094, 1999.