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Motor, Volitional and Behavioural Disorders in Schizophrenia

1: Assessment Using the Modified Rogers Scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

C. E. Lund
Affiliation:
High Royds Hospital, Menston, Ilkley LS21 2LY
A. M. Mortimer
Affiliation:
St Luke's Hospital, Crosland Moor, Huddersfield HD4 5RQ
D. Rogers
Affiliation:
Burden Neurological Hospital, Stoke Lane, Stapleton, Bristol BS16 1QT
P. J. McKenna
Affiliation:
Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge CB1 5EF

Abstract

The assessment of catatonic symptoms, unlike that of other schizophrenia symptoms, has not acquired accuracy and phenomenological rigour, and their distinction from extrapyramidal side-effects is not always easy. The Modified Rogers Scale can rate abnormalities in movement, volition, speech, and overall behaviour in schizophrenia. It is detailed, reliable and valid, and permits the isolation of a score for non-extrapyramidal and hence presumably catatonic phenomena.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991 

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