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Anxiety among Acute Schizophrenics and Temporal Lobe Patients
Author(s) -
COURT J. H.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1965.tb00472.x
Subject(s) - abnormality , temporal lobe , anxiety , psychology , psychiatry , electroencephalography , audiology , disturbance (geology) , personality , epilepsy , clinical psychology , medicine , paleontology , social psychology , biology
EEG records of acute psychiatric patients obtained routinely on admission to hospital revealed a high percentage of temporal lobe abnormalities. The clinical signs were of behavioural disturbance rather than a tendency to fits. Personality testing using Cattell's 16 PF test, showed them to be indistinguishable from acute schizophrenics (without EEG abnormality) and twenty patients with temporal lobe abnormality (none diagnosed as acute schizophrenics) confirmed that the disturbance is essentially similar and of comparable intensity. The most significant common feature was a high anxiety level.