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Schizophrenic Syndromes and Frontal Lobe Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter F. Liddle  and
Danielle L. Morris
Peter F. Liddle*
Affiliation:
Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd, London W12 0HS
Danielle L. Morris
Affiliation:
Middlesex Hospital Medical School
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

A battery of neuropsychological tests sensitive to frontal lobe impairment was administered to 43 chronic schizophrenic patients to delineate the abnormality of mental processing associated with the syndromes of psychomotor poverty and disorganisation, which had been identified in a previous study of the segregation of schizophrenic symptoms. Psychomotor poverty was found to be associated with slowness of mental activity, including slowness of generating words. The disorganisation syndrome was associated with impairment in tests in which the subject is required to inhibit an established but inappropriate response.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 158 , Issue 3 , March 1991 , pp. 340 - 345
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991 

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