Cognitive Dysfunction in Schizophrenia, Affective Disorder and Organic Brain Disease

1981 ◽  
Vol 139 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Abrams ◽  
Joel Redfield ◽  
Michael Alan Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Affective Disorder ◽  
Cognitive Dysfunction ◽  
Drug Administration ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Brain Disease ◽  
Cerebral Dysfunction ◽  
Organic Brain Disease ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Organic Brain

SummaryWe used the Wechsler Adult Itelligence Scale (WAIS) to study a sample of patients with affective disorder (N = 52), schizophrenia (N = 17) and organic brain disease (N = 8). Schizophrenic patients had lower verbal, performance and full-scale IQs than patients with affective disorder, but were no different from those with organic brain disease. An individual WAIS subscale analysis showed that, compared with affectives, schizophrenics had relatively poorer performance on language than non-language tasks.These differences were independent of age, sex, handedness, educational level or drug administration and are consistent with a variety of studies demonstrating significant cerebral dysfunction in carefully diagnosed schizophrenic patients.

Quantitative Brain Measurements in Chronic Schizophrenia

1972 ◽  
Vol 121 (562) ◽  
pp. 259-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall Rosenthal ◽  
Llewellyn B. Bigelow
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Schizophrenia ◽  
Controlled Study ◽  
Normal Variation ◽  
Autopsy Material ◽  
Organic Brain Disease ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Organic Brain ◽  
Brain Measurements ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Brain

Despite extensive gross and microscopic scrutiny, no consistent pathological findings have emerged from studies of autopsy material from schizophrenic patients. Dunlap (1924) carried out the first controlled study involving schizophrenic and control brains and concluded that ‘there was not even a suspicion of consistent organic brain disease as a basis for the psychosis of schizophrenia’. More recently both Wolf and Cowen (1952), and Weinstein (1954), reviewed the neuropathological literature and concluded that there were no consistent findings at autopsy that could be construed as characteristic of schizophrenia. These authors felt that earlier claims were based on failure to appreciate the range of normal variation in the brain as well as a failure to include an adequate control population in the study.

Depressive Syndromes in Middle Age and Organic Brain Disease

1981 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-111
Author(s):  
G. Ladurner ◽  
W. Pieringer ◽  
W.D. Sager
Keyword(s):  
Middle Age ◽  
Brain Disease ◽  
Organic Brain Disease ◽  
Organic Brain ◽  
Depressive Syndromes

The comparative effects of organic brain disease on cerebral blood flow and measured intelligeence

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Butler ◽  
William A. Dickinson ◽  
Charles Katholi ◽  
James H. Halsey
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Cerebral Blood Flow ◽  
Brain Disease ◽  
Organic Brain Disease ◽  
Organic Brain

scholarly journals Life expectation in organic brain disease

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 211-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Jolley ◽  
David Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Causes Of Death ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Brain Disease ◽  
Life Expectation ◽  
Organic Brain Disease ◽  
Organic Brain

The purpose of this review is to outline current knowledge on the life expectation of people suffering from organic brain disease, the techniques available for describing and comparing life expectation in populations, factors which are associated with longer and shorter life expectation, and the causes of death among patients with this condition.

Physical Disorder Among Day Hospital Patients

1978 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aggrey W. Burke
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Neurological Disorder ◽  
Folate Deficiency ◽  
Brain Disease ◽  
Physical Disorder ◽  
Day Hospital ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
Organic Brain Disease ◽  
Organic Brain ◽  
Routine Investigations

SummaryDuring a six-month period, physical disorder was found among 50 per cent of the 133 patients at a day hospital. Few of these cases (5) had organic brain syndromes. Among the remainder (62) physical disorder was not associated with sex, formal psychiatric diagnosis or time of referral to the hospital; of those 33 patients with a neurological disorder, one-third had previously been diagnosed to be hysterical. For this ‘hysterical’ group, however, associations with folate deficiency, organic brain disease, and depression were noted. The need is demonstrated for routine investigations among day hospital patients with particular attention for those with atypical features.

scholarly journals (i) On right or left sided spasm at the onset of epileptic paroxysms, and on crude sensation warnings, and elaborate mental states. By J. Hughlings Jackson, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. Physician to the London Hospital, and to the National Hospital for the Epileptic and Paralysed. Brain 1880: 2; 192-206. With (ii) On a particular variety of epilepsy ('intellectual aura'), one case with symptoms of organic brain disease. By J. Hughlings Jackson, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. Brain 1888: 11; 179-207. With (iii) Case of epilepsy with tasting movements and 'dreamy state'--very small patch of softening in the left uncinate gyrus. By J. Hughlings Jackson, M.D., F.R.C.P., LL.D., F.R.S. and Walter S. Colman, MD, F.R.C.P. Brain 1898: 21; 580-590. With (iv) Epileptic attacks with a warning of a crude sensation of smell and with the intellectual aura (dreamy state) in a patient who had symptoms pointing to gross organic disease of the right temporo-sphenoidal lobe. By J. Hughlings Jackson M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. Physician to the National Hospital for the Epileptic and Paralysed and Purves Stewart, M.A., M.D., M.R.C.P Assistant-Physician to the Westminster Hospital. Brain 1899: 22; 535-549.

Brain ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 130 (7) ◽  
pp. 1712-1714
Author(s):  
A. Compston
Keyword(s):  
Mental States ◽  
Brain Disease ◽  
Organic Disease ◽  
National Hospital ◽  
Small Patch ◽  
London Hospital ◽  
Assistant Physician ◽  
Organic Brain Disease ◽  
Organic Brain ◽  
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