Psychoticism and thought disorder in psychiatric patients.
Schizophrenic patients, whether thought-disordered or not, were found to perform worse than other patients when sorting schematic faces, but not when sorting equivalent abstract material. This information-processing deficit was found to be related to self-rated psychoticism scores as well as to factor scores on the factor of schizophrenia derived from the analysis of psychiatrists' ratings of the patients on a large number of symptoms.
D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D000328:Adult; D000341:Affective Disorders, Psychotic / Q000523:psychology; D001288:Attention; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000523:psychology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013850:Thinking