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J Nerv Ment Dis. 1981 Jun;169(6):357-63. doi: 10.1097/00005053-198106000-00003.
The incidence of clockwise drawing (torque) was compared for 90 schizophrenics, 57 institutionalized elderly individuals, 24 general medical patients, 50 adults functioning well in the community, 71 graduate students, and 72 undergraduate college students. In view of Blau's (Blau, T. H. Torque and schizophrenic vulnerability: As the world turns. Am. Psychol., 32: 997-1005, 1977) previous finding that torque behavior in children is substantially associated with subsequent schizophrenic pathology an attempt was made to verify the pathological significance of torque. Results indicated that for all Ss combined 38 per cent produced torque. Only the elderly as compared with undergraduate students displayed a significant difference in incidence of clockwise circling, with the elderly producing more torque. The absence of any significant differences between adult schizophrenics and any of the other comparison groups raises serious doubts about the pathological importance of torque in adults. Moreover, since groups who would be expected to be neurologically more intact performed no different from those who would be expected to be less intact, the neural integrative defect explanation proposed by Blau would seem to be unwarranted.
对90名精神分裂症患者、57名机构养老的老年人、24名普通内科患者、50名在社区中功能良好的成年人、71名研究生和72名本科生进行了顺时针绘图（扭矩）发生率的比较。鉴于布劳（布劳，T.H. 扭矩与精神分裂症易感性：随着世界转动。《美国心理学家》，32: 997 - 1005，1977）之前的发现，即儿童中的扭矩行为与随后的精神分裂症病理显著相关，因此试图验证扭矩的病理意义。结果表明，所有被试组合起来，38%产生了扭矩。与本科生相比，只有老年人在顺时针转圈发生率上显示出显著差异，老年人产生的扭矩更多。成年精神分裂症患者与任何其他对照组之间没有任何显著差异，这对扭矩在成年人中的病理重要性提出了严重质疑。此外，由于预计神经功能更完整的组与预计神经功能不太完整的组表现没有差异，布劳提出的神经整合缺陷解释似乎没有依据。
