Immediate memory, attention and communication disturbances in schizophrenia patients and their relatives

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 189-197

  Docherty, Nancy M ^a   Gordinier, Scott W ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RELATIVE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0032898030     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291798007843     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. American Psychiatric Association (1987). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd edn. Revised (DSM-III-R). American Psychiatric Association Press: Washington, DC.
2. American Psychiatric Association (1994). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edn. (DSM-IV). American Psychiatric Association Press: Washington, DC.
3. Andreasen, N. C. (1979). Thought, language, and communication disorders: I. Clinical assessment, definition of terms, and evaluation of their reliability. Archives of General Psychiatry 36, 1315-1321.
4. Andreasen, N. C. (1982). Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms. University of Iowa Press: Iowa City.
5. Andreasen, N. C. & Grove, W. M. (1986). Thought, language and communication in schizophrenia: diagnosis and prognosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin 12, 348-358.
6. Barch, D. M. & Berenbaum, H. (1996). Language production und thought disorder in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 105, 81-88.
7. Berenbaum, H. & Barch, D. (1995). The categorization of thought disorder. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 24, 349-376.
8. Chapman, L. J. & Chapman, J. P. (1978). The measurement of differential deficit. Journal of Psychiatric Research 14, 303-385.
9. Docherty, N. M. (1995). Linguistic reference performance in the parents of schizophrenic patients. Psychiatry 58, 20-27.
10. Docherty, N., Schnur, M. & Harvey, P. D. (1988). Reference performance and positive and negative thought disorder: a follow-up study of manies and schizophrenics. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 97, 437-442.
11. Docherty, N. M., Sledge, W. H. & Wexler, B. E. (1994). Affective reactivity of language in stable schizophrenic outpatients and their parents. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 182, 313-318.
12. Docherty, N. M., Hawkins, K. A., Hoffman, R. E., Quinlan, D. M., Rakfeldt, J. & Sledge, W. H. (1996a). Working memory, attention, and communication disturbances in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 105, 212-219.
13. Docherty, N. M., Hoffman, R. E., Hawkins, K. A., Quinlan, D. M., Rakfeldt, J. & Sledge, W. H. (1996b). Cognitive correlates of communication disturbances in schizophrenia. Presented at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, New York.
14. Docherty, N. M., DeRosa, M. & Andreasen, N. C. (1996c). Communication disturbances in schizophrenia and mania. Archives of General Psychiatry 53, 358-364.
15. Docherty, N. M., Miller, T. N. & Lewis, M. (1997). Communication disturbances in the natural speech of schizophrenic patients and their nonschizophrenic parents. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 95, 500-507.
16. Docherty, N. M., Gordinier, S. W., Hall, M. J. & Cutting, L. P. (1999). Communication disturbances in relatives beyond the age of risk for schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin (in the press).
17. Fort, D.S. (1990). Parent-child effects on performance, thinking, and communication in families of normal and schizophrenic sons. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 18, 73-98.
18. Harrow, M. & Quinlan, D. M. (1985). Disordered Thinking and Schizophrenic Psychopathology. Gardner: New York.
19. Harvey, P. D., Weintraub, S. & Neale, J. M. (1982). Speech competence of children vulnerable to psychopathology. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 10, 373-388.
20. Harvey, P. D., Docherty, N., Serper, M. & Rasmussen, M. (1990). Cognitive deficits and thought disorder: II. An eight-month follow-up study. Schizophrenia Bulletin 16, 147-156.
21. Liem, J. H. (1974). Effects of verbal communication of parents and children: a comparison of normal and schizophrenic families. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 42, 438-450.
22. Nuechterlein, K. H., Edell, W. S., Norris, M. & Dawson, M. E. (1986). Attentional vulnerability indicators, thought disorder, and negative symptoms. Schizophrenia Bulletin 12, 408-426.
23. Oltmanns, T. F. & Neale, J. M. (1975). Schizophrenic performance when distractors arc present: attentional deficit or differential task difficulty? Journal of Abnormal Psychology 84, 205-209.
24. Rochester, S. R. (1978). Are language disorders in acute schizophrenia actually information-processing problems? In The Nature of Schizophrenia (ed. L. C. Wynne, R. L. Cromwell & S. Matthysse), pp. 320-328. Wiley: New York.
25. Rochesterl, S. R. & Martin, J. R. (1979). Crazy Talk: A Study of the Discourse of Schizophrenic Speakers. Plenum Press: New York.
26. Schopler, E. & Loftin, J. (1969). Thought disorder in parents of psychotic children. Archives of General Psychistry 20, 174-181.
27. Singer, M. T. & Wynne, L. C. (1965). Thought disorder and family relations of schizophrenics: IV. Results and implications. Archives of General Psychiatry 12, 201-212.