The Clinical Significance of Thought Disorder across Time in Psychiatric Patients
作者:
DAVID BRAFF,
IRA GLICK,
MARK JOHNSON,
SIDNEY ZISOOK,
期刊:
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
(OVID Available online 1988)
卷期:
Volume 176,
issue 4
页码: 213-220
ISSN:0022-3018
年代: 1988
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
The occurrence and clinical significance of thought disorder, as measured by general abstraction ability and idiosyncratic abstractions, remains a complex and ambiguous area of inquiry. We studied 49 subjects in a longitudinal design in which the effects of general psychopathology and depression on abstraction function were assessed. Results indicate that a) depressive patients have a generalized abstraction dysfunction not limited to specific content areas, b) some depressive patients have a residual abstraction deficit on discharge from the hospital, c) idiosyncratic abstractions are a characteristic but not pathognomonic marker for schizophrenia, and d) across all subjects, abstraction difficulties represent a seemingly state-dependent “final common pathway” that significantly correlates with general psychopathological impairment rather than level of depression.
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