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IV. Performance on Psychological Tests. Demographic and Clinical Correlates of the Results of these Tests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

C. D. Frith
Affiliation:
Northwick Park Hospital and Clinical Research Centre, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ
J. Leary
Affiliation:
Division of Psychiatry, Northwick Park Hospital and Clinical Research Centre, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ
Concepta Cahill
Affiliation:
Northwick Park Hospital and Clinical Research Centre, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ
Eve C. Johnstone
Affiliation:
Northwick Park Hospital and Clinical Research Centre, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ University Department of Psychiatry, The Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh EH10 5HF

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It has become increasingly apparent that schizophrenic patients can suffer from many cognitive deficits (Hemsley, 1982). These include a decline in IQ (Nelson et al, 1990), loss of concentration (Garmezy, 1978), and various ‘executive’ difficulties similar to those observed in patients with frontal lobe lesions (Morice, 1990). The availability of a large, population-based sample of schizophrenic patients in the Harrow study provided the opportunity to examine the prevalence of these impairments and to relate them to the signs and symptoms of the disorder.

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Research Article
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