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Cognitive Disorder Among the Schizophrenias—III. Retardation

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; (At present supported by the Mental Health Research Fund)
P. R. Mayo
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh University Department of Psychiatry, Morningside Park, Edinburgh, 10

Extract

As part of a larger study of cognitive disorder among the schizophrenias (Foulds et al., 1967a, 1967b), aspects of retardation were investigated. The relation of retardation to other forms of thought disorder in schizophrenia has been extensively investigated by Payne (Payne, 1960, 1962; Payne, Ancevich and Laverty, 1963; Payne, Caird and Laverty, 1964; Payne and Caird, 1967) who has used the three Babcock tests (Babcock and Levy, 1940), and the Wechsler Digit Symbol test as his measuring instruments.

Type
Studies in Schizophrenia
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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