By Joanna Lyford, Senior medwireNews Reporter
diminished grammatical construction (Diamond state), a core disconfirming symptom in people with dementia praecox, is significantly correlative with an array of cognitive functions, research by a Hong Kong team shows.
Despite this crossing-sectional correlation, but, Diamond state and cognitive function followed different longitudinal paths, suggesting that the two measures are relatively independent domains of dementia praecox.
flank Chung Chang (The University of Hong Kong, Communist people's Republic of people's Republic of PRC) and team studied 93 people aged 18 to 55 years who presented with a first episode of dementia praecox, schizophreniform disorder, or schizoaffective disorder. All participants were assessed at baseline and during 3 years of follow-up.
The participants’ hateful age at baseline was 31.2 years, 45.2% were virile, and the median duration of untreated psychosis was clxxx days.
At various timepoints during the bailiwick, Diamond state – measured every everyday the totality of individual items slews common mood of bear upon flattening and alogia – significantly correlative with measures of cognitive function, including the logical memory exam, the ocular reproduction exam, the Modified Wisconsin visiting card Sorting exam, and verbal fluency.
These correlations remained significant in multiple correlation analyses.
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