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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2-3
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-2-2
pubmed:abstractText
Previous studies of executive/attentional functions have found impairments in nonpsychotic first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia. The aims of this study were: (1) to replicate these findings by three laboratory measures of attention/information processing - a continuous performance test (DS-CPT), a forced-choice span of apprehension task (SPAN), and a digit symbol substitution test (DSST), and by a series of neuropsychological tests sensitive to prefrontal cortical damage - Trail Making A and B, verbal fluency (VFT), Stroop Color and Word Test (Stroop), and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST); (2) to investigate whether such executive/attentional deficits are associated with schizotypal traits assessed using the social anhedonia, physical anhedonia, perceptual aberration and magical ideation scales (Chapman, L.J., Chapman, J.P., Raulin, M.L. 1976. Scales for physical and social anhedonia. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 85, 374-382; Chapman, L.J., Chapman, J.P., Raulin, M.L., 1978. Body-image aberration in schizophrenia. J. Abnorm. Psychol. 87, 399-407; Eckblad, M., Chapman, L.J., 1983. Magical ideation as an indicator of schizotypy. J. Consult. Clin. Psychol. 51, 215-225). In both patient and relative groups, performance was significantly poorer on the DSST, VFT and Trail B, and the reaction time on the SPAN was significantly longer. These neuropsychological impairments were present as much in siblings as in parents of schizophrenic patients; age did not appear to cancel differences between the relative and control groups. In the relative group, the four scores of schizotypy were at an intermediate level between those of patient and control groups, and the social anhedonia and perceptual aberration scores tended to be significantly different between the relative and the control groups. Only two significant correlations were found between the neuropsychological performance and the measures of schizotypy.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0920-9964
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
46
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
269-83
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-2
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Executive/attentional performance and measures of schizotypy in patients with schizophrenia and in their nonpsychotic first-degree relatives.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Grenoble, BP 217 38043, Grenoble, France. Annie.Laurent@ujf-grenoble.fr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article