Senior resident, Department of Psychiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh.
Indian J Psychiatry. 1992 Oct;34(4):311-20.
Twenty patients of positive schizophrenia and 20 patients of negative schizophrenia, individually matched for age, sex, place of residence and education were studied to assess their linguistic competence and its relationship with psychopalhology and subsequent course of the disorder over a follow-up period of 6 months. It was observed that positive schizophrenics had significantly higher linguistic competence than negative schizophrenics. Linguistic competence was significantly related not only to the type of symptoms (positive or negative) but also to the severity of these symptoms. High linguistic competence was an indicator of poor prognosis in positive schizophrenia whereas in negative schizophrenia it was indicative of good prognosis.
研究了 20 例阳性精神分裂症患者和 20 例阴性精神分裂症患者,对他们的语言能力及其与精神病理学的关系以及在随后的 6 个月随访期间疾病的后续过程进行了评估。结果表明,阳性精神分裂症患者的语言能力明显高于阴性精神分裂症患者。语言能力不仅与症状类型(阳性或阴性)有关,而且与这些症状的严重程度有关。高语言能力是阳性精神分裂症预后不良的指标,而在阴性精神分裂症中则是预后良好的指标。