Usefulness of the Memory-for-Designs Test in Assessing Mild Organic Complications in Psychiatric Patients

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Abstract
The Memory-for-Designs Test (MFD) was administered to three matched groups of Ss aged 40 yr. or older: psychiatric patients suspected of organicity on initial clinical examination, patients not suspected of organicity, nonhospitalized normals. No Ss had known brain damage. Patients suspected of organicity and normals differed significantly in mean MFD score. There were no other group differences. 4 mo. later, the same patients were again classified as (currently) suspected or not suspected of organicity. Group means on the original MFD scores were compared. The reconstituted “suspected” group differed significantly from the other two groups, which did not differ from each other, suggesting that initial MFD score predicts more accurately later psychiatric classification than does initial psychiatric classification.

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