Functional motor asymmetries correlated with clinical findings in unmedicated schizophrenic patients

1992 ◽  
Vol 242 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge Gorynia ◽  
Ralf Uebelhack
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Motor Asymmetries

Language Therapy for Schizophrenic Patients with Persistent ‘Voices’

1993 ◽  
Vol 162 (6) ◽  
pp. 755-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph E. Hoffman ◽  
Sally L. Satel
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Inner Speech ◽  
Language Therapy ◽  
Language Complexity ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Overt Speech

One of us has hypothesised that the ‘voices' of schizophrenic patients reflect altered preconscious planning of discourse that can produce involuntary ‘inner speech’ as well as incoherent overt speech. Some schizophrenic patients reporting voices do not, however, have disorganised speech. We hypothesise that these ‘counterexample’ patients compensate for impairments of discourse planning by reducing language complexity and relying on highly rehearsed topics. A ‘language therapy’ designed to challenge and enhance novel discourse planning was administered to four such patients; three had significant albeit temporary reductions in the severity of their voices. These clinical findings provide further evidence that alterations of discourse planning may underlie hallucinated voices.

Visual Imagery and Motor Phenomena in Acute Schizophrenia

1967 ◽  
Vol 113 (500) ◽  
pp. 771-778 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Function ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Experimental Validation ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Young Patients ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Interview Technique ◽  
Clinical Observations ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Made In

This paper deals briefly with a few clinical observations made in the course of studies of changes in subjective experience reported by young patients in the early stages of schizophrenia. These studies aimed at delineating the early schizophrenic clinical picture in as specific a manner as possible with a view to later experimental validation, and the clinical findings concerning a group of forty young schizophrenics have been reported elsewhere (Chapman, 1966). The observations on which this paper is based were obtained by the same method of examination and interview technique as previously reported, the observer deliberately identifying with the patient, adopting his particular style of communication and encouraging him in the direct projection of his experiences. Thus these observations have been taken out of a matrix of abnormalities in cognitive function found in schizophrenic patients, and have to do chiefly with their visual imagery and motility. Before proceeding to present and discuss these observations it may be worth while to provide a background against which to view them, by referring first to what we know of normal imagery, and second to the breakdown in perception and cognition found in the patients from whom these observations were derived.

III. Clinical Findings. Abnormalities of the Mental State and Movement Disorder and their Correlates

1991 ◽  
Vol 159 (S13) ◽  
pp. 21-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eve C. Johnstone ◽  
D. G. C. Owens ◽  
C. D. Frith ◽  
J. Leary
Keyword(s):  
Movement Disorder ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Clinical Evidence ◽  
Treatment Resistance ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Unselected Sample

Persisting positive symptoms largely unresponsive to treatment (Tuma & May, 1979; Macmillan et al, 1986; May et al, 1989) occur in about 7% of patients with schizophrenia but lesser degrees of treatment resistance are common (Hogarty, 1988; Johnstone, 1990) and problems of recurrence of positive symptoms and deterioration of negative symptoms are well known (Johnstone, 1990). Schizophrenic patients have also been found to have persisting non-psychotic symptoms, particularly depression (Cheadle et al, 1978). Disorders of movement in relation to schizophrenia and their treatment have been found to be disabling in a few patients and to cause lesser problems for many (Kane et al, 1985). The assessment of the mental state and of clinical evidence of movement disorder in the patients who form the subjects of the Harrow study was therefore clearly of interest, as it is rarely possible to examine these issues in a large, unselected sample.

Clinical Findings with SAL Audiometry: Some Further Observations

1965 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-335
Author(s):  
George E. Lynn ◽  
Jack A. Willeford
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Findings

Spinal Impairment Evaluation: Fifth Edition Changes

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Robert H. Haralson
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Lower Extremity ◽  
Range Of Motion ◽  
Upper Extremity ◽  
Spinal Cord Injuries ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Fourth Edition ◽  
Treatment Results ◽  
Standard Terminology ◽  
Made In

Abstract The AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), Fifth Edition, was published in November 2000 and contains major changes from its predecessor. In the Fourth Edition, all musculoskeletal evaluation and rating was described in a single chapter. In the Fifth Edition, this information has been divided into three separate chapters: Upper Extremity (13), Lower Extremity (14), and Spine (15). This article discusses changes in the spine chapter. The Models for rating spinal impairment now are called Methods. The AMA Guides, Fifth Edition, has reverted to standard terminology for spinal regions in the Diagnosis-related estimates (DRE) Method, and both it and the Range of Motion (ROM) Method now reference cervical, thoracic, and lumbar. Also, the language requiring the use of the DRE, rather than the ROM Method has been strengthened. The biggest change in the DRE Method is that evaluation should include the treatment results. Unfortunately, the Fourth Edition's philosophy regarding when and how to rate impairment using the DRE Model led to a number of problems, including the same rating of all patients with radiculopathy despite some true differences in outcomes. The term differentiator was abandoned and replaced with clinical findings. Significant changes were made in evaluation of patients with spinal cord injuries, and evaluators should become familiar with these and other changes in the Fifth Edition.

Familial cold urticaria. Clinical findings

1974 ◽  
Vol 110 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. M. Doeglas
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Cold Urticaria

1474: The Urinary Distress Inventory Questionnaire (UDI-6) and Clinical Findings: Do they Correlate in our Office?

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 486-487
Author(s):  
Paholo G. Barboglio ◽  
Brian Cohen ◽  
Angelo E. Gousse
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Findings

The self and schizophrenia: a cognitive approach

2003 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Nieznanski
Keyword(s):  
Normal Subjects ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Self Schema ◽  
Persons With Schizophrenia ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
Trait Words ◽  
Patients Experience ◽  
Normal Controls

The aim of the study was to explore the basic features of self-schema in persons with schizophrenia. Thirty two schizophrenic patients and 32 normal controls were asked to select personality trait words from a check-list that described themselves, themselves as they were five years ago, and what most people are like. Compared with the control group, participants from the experimental group chose significantly more adjectives that were common to descriptions of self and others, and significantly less that were common to self and past-self descriptions. These results suggest that schizophrenic patients experience their personality as changing over time much more than do healthy subjects. Moreover, their self-representation seems to be less differentiated from others-representation and less clearly defined than in normal subjects.

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