This paper is published in Volume 3, Issue 5, 2018
Area
Clinical Psychology
Author
Dr. Rajendra Kumar Sharma
Org/Univ
Amity Institute of Behavioral and Allied Sciences, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
Pub. Date
28 May, 2018
Paper ID
V3I5-1207
Publisher
Keywords
Early onset schizophrenia, Late-onset schizophrenia, Cognition and Psychopathology.

Citationsacebook

IEEE
Dr. Rajendra Kumar Sharma. Cognitive dysfunction in early onset and late onset schizophrenia and psychopathology: A clinical and outcome study, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARnD.com.

APA
Dr. Rajendra Kumar Sharma (2018). Cognitive dysfunction in early onset and late onset schizophrenia and psychopathology: A clinical and outcome study. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 3(5) www.IJARnD.com.

MLA
Dr. Rajendra Kumar Sharma. "Cognitive dysfunction in early onset and late onset schizophrenia and psychopathology: A clinical and outcome study." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 3.5 (2018). www.IJARnD.com.

Abstract

The current study aim was first, to examine early and late-onset schizophrenia Performances on Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) subtest. Methods: The study was conducted at Ranchi Institute of Neuro- Psychiatry and Allied Sciences (RINPAS), Kanke, Ranchi. Based on purposive sampling method a group of forty male schizophrenic patients between the age range of 18 to 42 years was taken twenty patients were early-onset schizophrenia (18 to 30 years) and twenty patients were of late onset of schizophrenia (31 to 42) years who were diagnosed according to the DCR, ICD – 10 were selected from different words of RINPAS. Similarly twenty normal controls were selected from different localities of Ranchi. Results: Significant result found on different domains of BPRS . Between the schizophrenics groups the late onset schizophrenics performance was more symptomatic than early onset schizophrenics patient on all parameters of the test . The performance of normal on controls group was better than schizophrenic groups.
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