title: Spatial vs. nonspatial reasoning ability in chronic schizophrenics.
abstract: Forty chronic male VA schizophrenics were matched with veterans who were seeking educational counseling, and both groups were tested on a 32-item measure of spatial and matched nonspatial reasoning questions. Schizophrenics were inferior in spatial reasoning not only when compared to controls, but also when compared to their own level of functioning on nonspatial reasoning, which suggests that spatial reasoning may be selectively more impaired than general reasoning ability in male chronic schizophrenics.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003071:Cognition; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013028:Space Perception