Clinical Outcomes and Satisfaction following Neuropsychological Assessment for Adults: A Community Hospital Prospective Quasi-Experimental Study.

Objective: Patients and other stakeholders generally report high satisfaction with neuropsychological evaluations (NPEs), but no research has examined effects of cognitive, emotional, and other factors that often prompt evaluations. A prospective, quasi-experimental study was conducted to examine self-reported cognitive and psychiatric symptoms, self-efficacy, motivation, and satisfaction following a NPE.

Method: Participants from a neuropsychology clinic who were diagnosed with AD/HD and/or a DSM-IV mood disorder based on a NPE were included, and excluded if diagnosed with dementia or failure on performance validity tests.

IQ subtypes in schizophrenia: distinct symptom and neuropsychological profiles.

Intellectual decline, a key component of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia, varies considerably across individuals. To examine such cognitive heterogeneity, we applied cluster analysis of IQ and oral reading scores in 73 patients with schizophrenia. The following 3 empirically-derived subtypes emerged: intellectually compromised (42%) with similarly subaverage IQ (M = 79.