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Intellectual and personality changes associated with carotid endarterectomy
Author(s) -
King Glen D.,
Gideon Deborah A.,
Haynes C. Doyle,
Dempsey Richard L.,
Jenkins Chester W.
Publication year - 1977
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 - 10.1002/1097-4679(197701)33:1+<215::aid-jclp2270330149>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - personality , carotid endarterectomy , psychology , carotid arteries , stenosis , endarterectomy , perception , confusion , cardiology , medicine , social psychology , neuroscience , psychoanalysis
Eleven patients with at least 40‐50% carotid artery stenosis were given intelligence and personality tests just prior to and 6 weeks after carotid endarterectomy, a surgical procedure designed to remove arteriosclerotic blockage. When compared with 8 control patients, endarterectomy patients showed increases in Perceptual‐Organization IQ, decreases in time to complete a perceptual motor task, and significant reductions in suspicion, confusion, disorientation, and other personality symptoms generally associated with senility.