Open AccessVariants of cognitive deficiency depending on the clinical characteristics of the disease in patients with paranoid schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Г. Г. Лебедева,
Е. Р. Исаева
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
učënye zapiski sankt-peterburgskogo gosudarstvennogo medicinskogo universiteta im. akad. i.p. pavlova/učënye zapiski sankt-peterburgskogo gosudarstvennogo medicinskogo universiteta imeni akademika i. p. pavlova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2541-8807
pISSN - 1607-4181
DOI - 10.24884/1607-4181-2015-22-1-51-53
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , cognition , paranoid schizophrenia , disease , psychiatry , clinical psychology , psychology , medicine , psychosis
Pecific aspects of cognitive impairments in patients with paranoid schizophrenia depending on the clinical characteristics of the disease have been studied. One hundred and thirty patients were examined. A clinico-psychological, experimental psychological and statistical methods were used. Three main types of cognitive deficiency with paranoid schizophrenia, associated with the onset, disease duration, and severity of psychiatric symptomology : 1) long-term course of the disease accompanied by the average level of clinical symptomology associated with abnormal attention and visuospatial functions; 2) late onset of the disease and unexpressed clinical symptomology combined with memory impairments; 3) acute onset and early age combined with the absence of cognitive impairments.