Deviant strategy on The Modified Six Elements Test in patients with schizophrenia.

Impaired executive functioning is found in a considerable proportion of schizophrenia patients. Neuropsychological tests are originally designed to measure the behavior of neurological patients and may therefore miss psychiatry-related cognitive deficits. Qualitative information on tests for executive functioning is important in psychiatric populations.

Measuring the executive functions in schizophrenia: the voluntary allocation of effort.

Introduction: Executive functioning reflects not only what a patient does, but also how he does it or whether he does it at all [Lezak MD. The problem of assessing executive functions. Int.

What is measured by verbal fluency tests in schizophrenia?

Introduction: Schizophrenia patients perform below the norm on verbal fluency tests. The causes for this are unknown, but defective memory, executive functioning and psychomotor speed may play a role.

Method: We examined 50 patients with schizophrenia and related disorders, and 25 healthy controls with a cognitive test battery containing tests for verbal memory, executive functioning and psychomotor speed, and a categorical fluency test.

Cognitive deficits and social functioning in schizophrenia: a clinical perspective.

Impaired social functioning is one of the diagnostic features of schizophrenia. Cognitive functioning is also often impaired in several domains. Meta-analysis has shown a predictive value of cognition for a variety of domains related to social functioning (Green, Kern, Braff, & Mintz, 2000).

Cognitive performance in patients with COPD.

Background: Hypoxemic patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) have impaired cognitive performance. These neuropsychological impairments are related to the degree of hypoxemia. So far, cognitive performance has not been tested in non-hypoxemic patients with COPD.