Cognitive deficit among remitted schizophrenics: The role of a life-history variable.
- 1 February 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Vol. 72 (1) , 54-58
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0020083
Abstract
The present study investigates the degree of cognitive impairment shown by remitted schizophrenics relative to nonpsychiatric controls and the relationship of such deficit to educational level. It was hypothesized that grade-school-educated remitted schizophrenics would perform more poorly than comparably educated controls, and that college-educated schizophrenics would perform significantly closer to comparably educated controls on a battery of cognitive tasks. Both hypotheses were confirmed. The findings were discussed in terms of their implications for understanding the relative roles of symptoms and life-history variables in accounting for cognitive deficit.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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