TY  - GEN
AU  - Citak,Serhat
TI  - Neuropsychological Assessment in Patients with Paranoid and Non-Paranoid Schizophrenia 
SN  - 1017-7833
AV  - WM100 
PY  - 2014///
PB  - Kure Iletısım Grubu A S
KW  - Near East University Article
KW  - Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi Makale
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Cognition
KW  - Neuropsychological tests
KW  - Paranoid schizophrenia
KW  - Voxel-based morphometry
KW  - Negatıve-Symptoms
KW  - Cognıtıve defıcıts
KW  - Clınıcal subtypes
N2  - Objective: Cognitive impairments in schizophrenia are associated with different symptom subtypes of schizophrenia. It has been suggested that cognitive functions in the paranoid type of schizophrenia were better protected. Here, we examine how neuropsychological measures jointly differentiate patients with paranoid schizophrenia from non-paranoid patients. 
Methods: Fifty-three patients with schizophrenia, 26 paranoid and 27 non-paranoid, were included in the study. The mean age was 38.0 +/- 9.1 in the paranoid patients and 39.8 +/- 16.4 in the non-paranoid patients. A comprehensive test battery was administered to evaluate a broad range of cognitive functions including attention, executive functions, memory, language, and complex perceptual processing.
Results: Patients with paranoid schizophrenia demonstrated higher performance than non-paranoid patients on measures of selective attention/executive function (Stroop Color-Word Interference Test) (F=6.07, p<0.01) and learning/memory functions (Serial Digit Learning Test) (F=8.43, p<0.00). 
Conclusion: Our findings suggest that cognitive differences might reflect underlying neurocognitive processes and may differentiate subtypes of schizophrenia
UR  - http://library.neu.edu.tr:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/bcp.20131213040431
ER  -