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Cognitive Disorder Among the Schizophrenias

I. The Validity of some Tests of Thought-process Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

G. A. Foulds
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Research on the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness
K. Hope
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Research on the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness
F. M. McPherson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh
P. R. Mayo
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh University Department of Psychiatry, Tower Block, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh, 10

Extract

This is the first of a series of papers reporting studies of various cognitive disorders in schizophrenia. The present paper deals with the validity of certain tests as measures of thought-process disorder: subsequent papers will relate type of disorder to various sub-categories of schizophrenia, as diagnosed clinically and by the Symptom-Sign Inventory (Foulds, 1965).

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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