Some cognitive correlates of affective disorders

Robertson, Graham and Taylor, Pamela Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3998-6095 1985. Some cognitive correlates of affective disorders. Psychological Medicine 15 (02) , pp. 297-309. 10.1017/S0033291700023576

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	0033-2917
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 10:35
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/85413

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