University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Int J Neurosci. 2009;119(10):1810-29. doi: 10.1080/00207450903192878.
This article addresses whether measures for assessing premorbid intellectual functioning are adequate for geriatric schizophrenia.
We included geriatric schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (SSD; n = 37), frontotemporal dementia (FTD; n = 41), and geriatric controls (n = 107), and employed measures of verbal ability.
Pearson's correlations and ANOVAs for discrepancy comparisons showed unique patterns of spared function in SSD when compared to FTD and controls.
Findings lend support to the specificity of cognitive processes in SSD, even when accounting for processes common to the theoretically similar FTD. SSD showed a distinct pattern of spared ability which supports clinical utilization of discrepant measures of premorbid intellectual estimation for SSD.
本文探讨了评估潜在智力功能的测量方法是否适用于老年精神分裂症。
我们纳入了老年精神分裂症谱系障碍（SSD；n = 37）、额颞叶痴呆（FTD；n = 41）和老年对照组（n = 107），并采用了言语能力的测量方法。
Pearson 相关分析和方差分析显示，与 FTD 和对照组相比，SSD 存在独特的功能保留模式。
这些发现支持 SSD 中认知过程的特异性，即使考虑到与理论上相似的 FTD 共有过程。SSD 表现出明显的保留能力模式，这支持了对 SSD 使用不同的潜在智力估计差异测量的临床应用。
