WCST Performance in Schizophrenia and Severe Depression with Psychotic Features
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
WCST Performance in Schizophrenia and Severe Depression with Psychotic Features
Background. Differentiating between schizophrenia and major depression with psychotic features often reveals diagnostic dilemma. Both share psychotic features and severe impairment in occupational functions. Severe psychomotor retardation, not uncommon in psychotic depression, may simulate negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Our work aims at utilizing Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) performa...
متن کاملPost-psychotic depression in schizophrenia.
Although a depressive state is known to occur following the resolution of an acute psychotic episode, little research has investigated its etiology, course, prognosis and treatment. Very often the depression is mistaken for an extrapyramidal-like syndrome--the secondary effect of antipsychotic medication--as a sense of inevitability assails both the patient and therapist. Post-psychotic depress...
متن کاملHabituation of the blink reflex in first-episode schizophrenia, psychotic depression and non-psychotic depression.
OBJECTIVE Electrophysiological recording of the electrically elicited blink reflex is the most reliable method of investigating habituation of the startle reflex. The purpose of this study was to compare the habituation and the late R3-component of the blink reflex between control subjects (N=19) and first-episode patients with schizophrenia (N=17), psychotic depression (N=23), and severe non-p...
متن کاملArtifactual rediagnosis of psychotic depression as schizophrenia.
To the Editor: Psychopathology is changed by antipsychotic-type medications, but Ruggero et al1 did not account for effects of exposure to medication on diagnosis. Diagnosis of functional disorders per DSM requires absence of medical effects—including effects from medications—that can cause or suppress disorder criteria contents. Antipsychotic-type drugs tend to suppress symptoms, including tho...
متن کاملDeclarative memory and WCST-64 performance in subjects with schizophrenia and healthy controls.
The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) is a set-switching task used extensively to study impaired executive functioning in schizophrenia. Declarative memory deficits have also been associated with schizophrenia and may affect WCST performance because continued correct responding depends on remembering the outcome of previous responses. This study examined whether performance in visual and verba...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: ISRN Psychiatry
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2090-7966
DOI: 10.5402/2012/373748