| Cognitive performance in relation to MRI temporal lobe volume in schizophrenic patients and healthy control subjects (2000) | |||||||||
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| Name oak AM Plate Cognitive Performance Relation MRI Temporal Lobe Volume Schizophrenic Patients and Healthy Control Subjects Lydia Krabbendam Mayke Derix Adriaan Honig D Psych Eric Vuurman Rob Havermans Jan Wilmink D Jellemer Jolles The aim this study was identify whether specific deficits cognitive processing are present schizophrenia and whether these are related the volume temporal and limbic structures Twenty seven schizophrenic outpatients were compared with matched control subjects Compared with control subjects patients performed complex tasks disproportionately worse than they performed simple tasks group differences were found with regard temporal and limbic volume Volume the parahippocampal gyrus was correlated with cognitive performance The findings are interpreted evidence for dysfunction the maintenance task relevant information and the inhibition irrelevant information The Journal Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences ognitive deficits schizophrenia may occur across range cognitive domains The widespread nature the cognitive problems has raised debate whether there specific general cognitive deficit The domains often mentioned differentially compromised include attention memory and executive functions However most neuropsychological tests involve several cognitive functions and particularly difficult identify specific cognitive deficits the basis impaired test performance the present study explored the issue specific versus general cognitive deficits using | |||||||||
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