Frontal and non-frontal lobe neuropsychological test performance and clinical symptomatology in schizophrenia
- 1 May 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 22 (2), 353-359
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700030294
Abstract
SYNOPSIS Schizophrenic subjects performed significantly worse on neuropsychological tests of frontal lobe function but not on tests of non-frontal lobe function when compared to a matched group of normal subjects. Correlations expected between frontal lobe neuropsychological test performance and negative symptoms were not found.Keywords
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