Corollary- and Discrepeancy-Based Approaches for Examining the Appropriateness of Premorbid Cognitive Estimation in Geriatric Schizophrenia

Author(s)

Jessica Foley, University of California - Los Angeles
Charles Golden, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
E. Simco, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Barry Schneider, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Robert McCue, Nova Southeastern University
Lindsay Shaw, Nova Southeastern University

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

International Journal of Neuroscience

ISSN

0020-7454

Publication Date

10-1-2009

Abstract

Objective: This article addresses whether measures for assessing premorbid intellectual functioning are adequate for geriatric schizophrenia.

Method: We included geriatric schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (SSD; n=37), frontotemporal dementia (FTD; n = 41), and geriatric controls (n = 107), and employed measures of verbal ability.

Results: Pearson’s correlations and ANOVAs for discrepancy comparisons showed unique patterns of spared function in SSD when compared to FTD and controls.

Conclusions: Findings lend support to the specificity of cognitive processes in SSD, even when accounting for processes common to the theoretically similar FTD. SSD showed a distinct pattern of spared ability which supports clinical utilization of discrepant measures of premorbid intellectual estimation for SSD.

DOI

10.1080/00207450903192878

Volume

119

Issue

10

First Page

1810

Last Page

1829

NSUWorks Citation

Foley, J., Golden, C., Simco, E., Schneider, B., McCue, R., Shaw, L. (2009). Corollary- and Discrepeancy-Based Approaches for Examining the Appropriateness of Premorbid Cognitive Estimation in Geriatric Schizophrenia. International Journal of Neuroscience, 119(10), 1810-1829.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/303