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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-2-29
pubmed:abstractText
Deficit schizophrenia is a relatively homogeneous subtype of patients which is considered helpful to explore the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. The aim of the present study was to reexamine the clinical characteristics of deficit (n=30) and nondeficit schizophrenia (n=93) in a Chinese sample and investigate the differences of neurocognitive function among the two subtypes of schizophrenia and the normal controls (n=103). Schizophrenia patients completed the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) and Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS). Additionally, all participants completed an abbreviated version of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-RC) and a neuropsychological test battery examining the executive functions, visuospatial abilities and explicit memory related to the frontal, parietal, and temporal lobe functions. The deficit group received higher scores than the nondeficit group on the BPRS anergia factor and SANS affective flattening, alogia, avolition-apathy, anhedonia-asociality subscales, but not on the SAPS. Both two schizophrenia subgroups performed more poorly on the WAIS-RC and neuropsychological tests than the normal controls. Moreover, deficit patients performed worse than nondeficit patients on the prorated IQ, the Trail Making Test, Wisconsin Card Sorting test and Block Design test. The present study replicated symptom profiles in deficit vs. nondeficit schizophrenia in the Chinese sample. Furthermore, this study suggested that deficit schizophrenia is associated with frontal and parietal lobe impairment, and that temporal lobe dysfunction may be a common basis for cognitive impairment in schizophrenia as a whole.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0165-1781
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
158
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
195-205
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Asian Continental Ancestry Group, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Cognition Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Female, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Frontal Lobe, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Intelligence, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Male, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Memory Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Neuropsychological Tests, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Parietal Lobe, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Schizophrenia, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Schizophrenic Psychology, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Severity of Illness Index, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Space Perception, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Temporal Lobe, pubmed-meshheading:18243336-Visual Perception
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Psychopathology and neuropsychological impairments in deficit and nondeficit schizophrenia of Chinese origin.
pubmed:affiliation
The Medical Psychological Research Center, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410011, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article