Visual imagery imitation skills and cognitive functions in patients with Schizophrenia.

Background/objectives: Visual demonstration by occupational therapists is very common in psychiatric treatment, however, some patients with schizophrenia could not imitate the actions despite the absence of any physical impairments. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify how cognitive functions such as attention and cognitive processes in the imitation process is necessary and how these processes were related to the ability to convert this into action (imitation) in patients with schizophrenia.

Method: The participants were patients with schizophrenia with mean age 59.

Marital status of patients with epilepsy with special reference to the influence of epileptic seizures on the patient's married life.

Purpose: We investigated the marital status of the patients with epilepsy to clarify the clinical factors impeding improvement of the quality of life in adults with epilepsy.

Methods: We examined the marital status of adult patients with epilepsy who did not have mental retardation and had been treated at Hirosaki University Hospital, Hirosaki, Japan, for >5 years. The present study included 278 patients (142 men and 136 women) ranging from age 20 to 60 years.