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Cognitive changes with aging in schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Chaikelson June Steinberg,
Schwartzman Alex E.
Publication year - 1983
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(198301)39:1<25::aid-jclp2270390105>3.0.co;2-k
Subject(s) - psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , verbal fluency test , cognition , fluency , verbal learning , psychiatry , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , cognitive psychology , neuropsychology , mathematics education
Hospitalized, male chronic schizophrenics ( N = 21) in their late sixties performed as well as those in their early forties when normal age effects were determined on measures of verbal fluency, picture anomaly recognition, tapping speed, and maze learning. The findings contraindicated the Kraepelinian view of schizophrenia as a deteriorative disorder and were more in accord with recent longitudinal evidence of clinical stabilization and amelioration of disruptive symptoms in chronic schizophrenia.