Psychopathology and wisconsin card sorting test performance in young unmedicated schizophrenic patients - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2000 Jan-Feb;33(1):14-8.

doi: 10.1159/000029113.

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Psychopathology and wisconsin card sorting test performance in young unmedicated schizophrenic patients

E Parellada et al. Psychopathology. 2000 Jan-Feb.

Abstract

The relationship between psychopathology and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) performance was evaluated in 25 unmedicated young acute schizophrenic female patients (14 neuroleptic-naive and 11 neuroleptic-free) and 15 female controls. The schizophrenic patients (especially the neuroleptic-free) performed more poorly than controls in the WCST. In addition, WCST impairment correlated with both negative and positive symptoms. The results suggest that the neuropsychological dysfunction in schizophrenia is present at the onset of the illness, and is neither secondary to previous neuroleptic treatment nor to chronicity of the illness.

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