Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology  1997;4(1):120-128

Neuropsychological Tests in Psychiatric Outpatients.

Sung Hoon LEE 1 ; Hee Jung PARK ; Hye Jung PARK ; Hee Sang LEE ; Chan Hyung KIM

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Keywords

Neuropsychology; Schizophrenia; Neurosis

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

Korean

Abstract

Clinical neuropsychological test were developed originally for the diagnosis of neurological and neuro-surgical diseased. Recently, these tests are being introduced to psychiatric patients. Authors had the experience to use these tests in pychiatric outpatient clinic. Results were as follows. There was a significantly increase in language and attentional function in residual schizophrenia compared to normal control. In chronic neurosis, as visuospatial function was reduced, language and attentional functions were enhanced. With these results, authors suggest that application of neuropsychological tests in psychiatric patients may be very helpful in classifying the subgroups of disease, in selecting the modality of treatment. and in expecting prognosis.