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M D Horner1, R T Harvey, C A Denier
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425-0742, USA. hornermd@musc.edu
Abstract:
The relationship between self-reported cognitive deficits and objectively measured cognitive performance was examined in 86 patients entering substance abuse treatment. Self-ratings of cognitive impairment were strongly correlated with indices of depression and vulnerability to stress, but not with objective cognitive performance. Confirming the lack of relationship between self-report and objective cognitive measures, cognitive performance did not differ between patients at the extremes of the cognitive-complaint distribution; and cognitively impaired patients did not differ from cognitively intact patients in their self-ratings of impairment.
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