Review of Assessment of organic intellectual impairment.

1976 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 844-845
Author(s):  
JOSEPH WEPMAN
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Impairment ◽  
Organic Intellectual

Dementia, deep white matter damage and hypertension: ‘Binswanger's disease’

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Janota
Keyword(s):  
White Matter ◽  
Intellectual Impairment ◽  
White Matter Damage ◽  
White Matter Changes ◽  
Deep White Matter ◽  
The Past ◽  
Binswanger’S Disease ◽  
Binswanger's Disease ◽  
Organic Intellectual ◽  
Organic Dementia

SYNOPSISThe clinical and neuropathological features are reported of 7 patients with organic intellectual impairment or dementia, hypertension and ischaemic destruction predominantly of the deep white matter of the cerebral hemispheres resembling that seen in infarction. The white matter changes have been dismissed as rare in the past, usually under the name of Binswanger's disease or subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy, and without much concern for hypertension. There are now indications that this sort of case may not be uncommon. It can be suspected in life on CT scans. The accuracy of assessment of the pathological substrate of organic dementia, and therefore the strategies of research and treatment, might well benefit from further clinicopathological studies.

Addiction Time and Intellectual Impairment in Heroin Users

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (3_part_2) ◽  
pp. 1099-1105
Author(s):  
Carlo Cipolli ◽  
Ivan Galliani
Keyword(s):  
Test Scores ◽  
Intellectual Functioning ◽  
Rorschach Test ◽  
Intellectual Impairment ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Heroin Use ◽  
Heroin Users

Rorschach test scores for male heroin users and nonusers ( ns = 15 each) were compared, to ascertain whether use of heroin influences intellectual impairment (as measured by such indicators of intellectual functioning as F+% and W+% responses). While the results show intellectual impairment to be greater in heroin users than in nonusers, the parametric and nonparametric indicators do not consistently show more marked impairment in long-term (4 to 5 yr. of addiction) than in short-term users (1 to 2 yr.). While intellectual functioning clearly seems influenced by heroin use, further research is required to ascertain the effect of the length of use either by comparing test and retest scores over a substantial interval or by matching samples including subjects with even longer careers of addiction.

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