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Scott R Sponheim1, Christa Surerus-Johnson, Jennie Leskela
1Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA. sponh001@umn.edu
Abstract:
Although clinicians have patients interpret proverbs in mental status exams for psychosis, there are few empirical studies investigating the significance of proverb interpretation. In schizophrenia patients, we found abstraction positively correlated with overall intelligence but no symptom measures, concreteness negatively correlated with overall intelligence, executive functioning, attention, and memory, and bizarre-idiosyncratic responses associated with positive formal thought disorder but no cognitive functions.
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