Hostname: page-component-7b7567c8c-fvjsw Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-13T12:10:03.890Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Some cognitive correlates of affective disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Graham Robertson and
Pamela J. Taylor
Graham Robertson*
Affiliation:
Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Pamela J. Taylor
Affiliation:
Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, London
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr Graham Robertson. Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF.
Get accessRights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Synopsis

Seventy-one men completed a battery of cognitive tests which were designed to reflect verbal analytic and non-verbal holistic functioning. Interest centred around pattern of response. Thirty men were suffering from an affective disorder and forty-one were well. All the men were in prison, the majority awaiting trial. The affective disorder group was subdivided into three categories: men who had a history of manic-depressive illness; a group of unipolar, psychotically depressed men; and men who were regarded as being depressed in reaction to circumstances. All three groups showed specific difficulty in dealing with spatial/holistic tasks, other factors being held constant. They were also found to differ in a number of other respects. The possible significance of these differences is discussed.

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , May 1985, pp. 297 - 309
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Åsberg, M., Montgomery, S. A., Perris, C., Schalling, D. & Sedvall, G. (1978). The Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica Supplement 27/5.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Faglioni, P., Scotti, G. & Spinnler, H. (1969). Impaired recognition of written letters following unilateral hemispheric damage. Cortex 5, 120–133.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Flor-Henry, P. (1976). Lateralised temporal limbic dysfunction and psychopathology. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 280, 777–795.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Fromm-Auch, D. (1983). Neuropsychological assessment of depressed patients before and after drug therapy: clinical profile interpretation. In Laterality and Psychopathology (ed. Flor-Henry, P. and Gruzelier, J.), pp. 83–102. Elsevier/North-Holland: Amsterdam.Google Scholar
Gunn, J. & Robertson, G. (1976). Drawing a criminal profile. British Journal of Criminology 16, 156–160.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mason, C. F. (1956). Pre-illness intelligence of mental hospital patients. Journal of Consulting Psychology 20, 297–300.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Miller, W. R. (1975). Psychological deficit in depression. Psychological Bulletin 82, 238–260.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Monakhov, K., Perris, C., Botskarev, V. K., von Knorring, L. & Nikiforov, A. I. (1979). Functional interhemispheric differences in relation to various psychopathological components of the depressive syndrome. Neuropsychobiology 5, 143–155.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Perris, C. (1975). EEG techniques in the measurement of the severity of depressive syndromes. Neuropsychobiology 1, 16–25.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Robertson, G. & Taylor, P. (1985). Some cognitive correlates of schizophrenic illnesses. Psychological Medicine 15, 81–98.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Schonell, F. J. & Schonell, F. E. (1965). Diagnostic and Attainment Testing. Oliver and Boyd: Edinburgh.Google Scholar
Taylor, M. & Abrams, R. (1983). Differential cognitive impairment in schizophrenia and affective disorder. In Laterality and Psychopathology(ed. Flor-Henry, P. and Gruzelier, J.), pp. 153–162. Elsevier/North-Holland: Amsterdam.Google Scholar
Taylor, M., Abrams, R. & Gaztanaga, P. (1975). Manic-depressive illness and schizophrenia: a partial validation of research diagnostic criteria utilizing neuropsychological testing. Comprehensive Psychiatry 16(1), 91–96.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Taylor, M., Greenspan, B. & Abrams, R. (1979). Lateralized neuropsychological dysfunction in affective disorder and schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry 136, 1031–1034.Google Scholar
Warrington, E. K. & James, M. (1967). An experimental investigation of facial recognition in patients with unilateral cerebral lesions. Cortex 3, 317–326.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wechsler, D. (1955). The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. The Psychological Corporation: New York.Google Scholar