NEUROLOGICAL SOFT SIGNS, COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION AND VENTRICULAR BRAIN RATION IN SCHIZOPHRENICS

An association between cognitive dysfunction, neurological soft signs, enlarged brain ventricles and widened cortical sulci has been reported in schizophrenia. The present work aimed to study the relevance of positive and negative dichotomy with relation to neuropsychological performance of the schi...

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Autores principales: Lal, Narottam, Tiwari, S.C., Srivastava, Shrikant, Khalid, Abdul, Siddhartha, Kohli, Neera
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1998
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2965842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21494466
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author Lal, Narottam
Tiwari, S.C.
Srivastava, Shrikant
Khalid, Abdul
Siddhartha,
Kohli, Neera
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description An association between cognitive dysfunction, neurological soft signs, enlarged brain ventricles and widened cortical sulci has been reported in schizophrenia. The present work aimed to study the relevance of positive and negative dichotomy with relation to neuropsychological performance of the schizophrenic patients, and the presence of neurological soft signs. In 23 schizophrenics patients diagnosed according to DSM-III-R of which 14 were of positive subtype and 9 were of negative subtype. At least one neurological soft sign was present in all the patients. The positive group had higher WMS and IQ scores and lower BGT scores than the negative group. Negative, correlation was seen for WMS and BGT scores with Ventricular Brain Ratio (VBR), and the soft signs showed positive correlation in the positive subtype only.
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spelling pubmed-29658422011-04-14 NEUROLOGICAL SOFT SIGNS, COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION AND VENTRICULAR BRAIN RATION IN SCHIZOPHRENICS Lal, Narottam Tiwari, S.C. Srivastava, Shrikant Khalid, Abdul Siddhartha, Kohli, Neera Indian J Psychiatry Original Article An association between cognitive dysfunction, neurological soft signs, enlarged brain ventricles and widened cortical sulci has been reported in schizophrenia. The present work aimed to study the relevance of positive and negative dichotomy with relation to neuropsychological performance of the schizophrenic patients, and the presence of neurological soft signs. In 23 schizophrenics patients diagnosed according to DSM-III-R of which 14 were of positive subtype and 9 were of negative subtype. At least one neurological soft sign was present in all the patients. The positive group had higher WMS and IQ scores and lower BGT scores than the negative group. Negative, correlation was seen for WMS and BGT scores with Ventricular Brain Ratio (VBR), and the soft signs showed positive correlation in the positive subtype only. Medknow Publications 1998 /pmc/articles/PMC2965842/ /pubmed/21494466 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Original Article
Lal, Narottam
Tiwari, S.C.
Srivastava, Shrikant
Khalid, Abdul
Siddhartha,
Kohli, Neera
NEUROLOGICAL SOFT SIGNS, COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION AND VENTRICULAR BRAIN RATION IN SCHIZOPHRENICS
title NEUROLOGICAL SOFT SIGNS, COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION AND VENTRICULAR BRAIN RATION IN SCHIZOPHRENICS
title_full NEUROLOGICAL SOFT SIGNS, COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION AND VENTRICULAR BRAIN RATION IN SCHIZOPHRENICS
title_fullStr NEUROLOGICAL SOFT SIGNS, COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION AND VENTRICULAR BRAIN RATION IN SCHIZOPHRENICS
title_full_unstemmed NEUROLOGICAL SOFT SIGNS, COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION AND VENTRICULAR BRAIN RATION IN SCHIZOPHRENICS
title_short NEUROLOGICAL SOFT SIGNS, COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION AND VENTRICULAR BRAIN RATION IN SCHIZOPHRENICS
title_sort neurological soft signs, cognitive dysfunction and ventricular brain ration in schizophrenics
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2965842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21494466
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