[Neuropsychologic study of schizophrenic patients with a "substitution syndrome"]

Using neuro-psychological methods the authors studied 10 schizophrenic patients with the syndrome of "substitution" and 10 schizophrenic patients without it, where they were selected by the principle of pair control. It was established that disturbance of identification of faces on photographs and a reproduction of simple rhythmical structures was significantly more frequently found in patients with the syndrome of "substitution" in comparison with the control group. The remaining tests did not detect any significant differences between the groups. The conclusion is made that the formation of the syndrome of "substitution" is related to a lesion of the right occipital and possibly the right temporal lobe.