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7893620

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-4-26
pubmed:abstractText
In order to test the hypothesis that a poor performance in the Wisconsin test (WCST) may be an indicator of liability to schizophrenia, we compared the WCST performances of patients with DSM III-R schizophrenia, normal controls, and patients with schizotypal personality disorder (SZT PD). While schizophrenic patients performed significantly worse than subjects in the other two groups, schizotypal and normal subjects showed no significant differences in the WCST execution. Moreover, patients with SZT PD with or without positive family history for the schizophrenic spectrum had similar WCST performances. Our observations are in keeping with other studies employing the WCST in paradigms of heightened liability to schizophrenia, and suggest that a poor performance in the test is more probably a feature of the disease process, than a trait marker of vulnerability to the illness demonstrable in high-risk subjects.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0920-9964
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
39-45
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-2
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
An assessment of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test as an indicator of liability to schizophrenia.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neuropsychiatric Sciences, University of Milan School of Medicine, S. Raffaele Hospital, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article