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[Cognitive disorders in patients with schizophrenia at different stages of the disease]
N N Petrova1, M V Dorofeikova1, E E Voinkova1
1St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg.
Objective:
To study cognitive disorders in patients with schizophrenia at different stages of the disease.
Material And Methods:
Forty-five patients with paranoid schizophrenia with first and recurrent episodes were examined clinically and psychometrically using the PANSS. Neurocognitive functioning was assessed with the «Rey--Osterrieth Complex figure».
Results And Conclusion:
Differences were found not only between patients with chronic and first-episode schizophrenia, but also between first-time hospitalized and re-hospitalized patients within the first-episode group.
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