5
Views
7
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Article

Verbal fluency in schizophrenia: reduction in semantic store

(Professor) (Associate Professor) (Clinical Psychologist) (Associate Professor) (Assistant Professor) (Professor) (Associate Professor) (Clinical Psychologist) (Associate Professor) (Assistant Professor) (Professor) (Associate Professor) (Clinical Psychologist) (Associate Professor) (Assistant Professor) (Professor) (Associate Professor) (Clinical Psychologist) (Associate Professor) (Assistant Professor) (Professor) (Associate Professor) (Clinical Psychologist) (Associate Professor) (Assistant Professor) , , , &
Pages 43-48 | Received 21 Apr 1999, Accepted 04 Aug 1999, Published online: 20 Nov 2010

References

  • McKay AP, McKenna PJ, Bentham P, Mortimer AM, Holbery A, Hodges JR. Semantic memory is impaired in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry 1996; 39: 929–937
  • Chen EYH, Wilkins AJ, McKenna PJ. Semantic memory is both impaired and anomalous in schizophrenia. Psychological Medicine 1994; 24: 193–202
  • Clare L, McKenna PJ, Mortimer AM, Baddeley AD. Memory in schizophrenia: what is impaired and what is preserved?. Neuropsychologia 1993; 31: 1225–1241
  • Tamlyn D, McKenna PJ, Mortimer AM, Lund CE, Hammond S, Baddeley AD. Memory impairment in schizophrenia: its extent, affiliations and neuropsychological character. Psychological Medicine 1992; 22: 101–115
  • Frith CD. The cognitive neuropsychology of schizophrenia. Erlbaum, Hove 1992
  • Crawford JR, Obonsawin MC, Bremner M. Frontal lobe impairment in schizophrenia: relationship to intellectual functioning. Psychological Medicine 1993; 23: 787–790
  • Kolb B, Whishaw IQ. Performance of schizophrenic patients on tests sensitive to left or right frontal, temporal or parietal function in neurological patients. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 1983; 171: 435–443
  • Gruzelier J, Seymour K, Wilson L, Jolley A, Hirsch S. Impairments of neuropsychological tests of temporohippocampal and frontohippocampal functions and word fluency in remitting schizophrenia and affective disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry 1988; 45: 623–629
  • Joyce EM, Collinson SL, Crichton P. Verbal fluency in schizophrenia: relationship with executive function, semantic memory and clinical alogia. Psychological Medicine 1996; 26: 39–49
  • Robert PH, Migneco V, Marmod D, et al. Verbal fluency in schizophrenia: the role of semantic clustering in category instance generation. European Psychiatry 1997; 12: 124–129
  • Allen HA, Liddle PF, Frith CD. Negative features, retrieval processes and verbal fluency in schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry 1993; 163: 769–775
  • Schwartzman AE, Douglas VI. Intellectual loss in schizophrenia, part II. Canadian Journal of Psychology 1962; 16: 161–168
  • Smith A. Mental deterioration in chronic schizophrenia. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 1964; 39: 479–487
  • Klonoff H, Hutton GH, Fibiger CH. Neuropsychological patterns in chronic schizophrenia. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 1970; 150: 291–300
  • Waddington JL, Youssef HA, Kinsella A. Cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia followed up over 5 years, and its longitudinal relationship to the emergence of tardive dyskinesia. Psychological Medicine 1990; 20: 835–842
  • American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM‐III‐R). American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC 1987
  • Overall GE, Gorham DR. The brief psychiatric rating scale. Psychological Reports 1962; 10: 799–812
  • Mortimer AM, McKenna PJ, Lund CE, Mannuzza S. Rating of negative symptoms using the High Royds evaluation of negativity (HEN) scale. British Journal of Psychiatry Supplement 1989; 7: 89–92
  • Montgomery SA, Asberg M. A new depression scale designed to be sensitive to change. British Journal of Psychiatry 1979; 139: 382–389
  • Chan DW, Lai B. Assessing psychopathology in Chinese psychiatric patients in Hong Kong using the brief psychiatric rating scale. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 1993; 87: 37–44
  • Chen EYH, Lam LCW, Chen RYL, Nguyen DGH. Negative symptoms, neurological signs and neuropsychological impairments in 204 Hong Kong Chinese patients with schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry 1996; 168: 227–233
  • Davis JM. Dose equivalence of the anti‐psychotic drugs. Journal of Psychiatric Research 1974; 26: 405–426
  • Chen EYH, Lam LCW, Chen RYL, Nguyen DGH. Neurological signs, age, and illness duration in schizophrenia. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 1996; 184: 339–345
  • Allen HA, Frith CD. Selective retrieval and free emission of category exemplars in schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychology 1983; 74: 481–490
  • Kaplan E, Goodglass H, Weintraub S. Boston naming test. Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia, PA 1983
  • Frith CD, Friston KJ, Liddle PF, Frackowiak RS. A PET study of word finding. Neuropsychologia 1991; 29: 1137–1148
  • Martin A, Wiggs CL, Lalonde F, Mack C. Word retrieval to letter and semantic cues: a double dissociation in normal subjects using interference tasks. Neuropsychologia 1994; 32: 1487–1494
  • Troster AI, Warmflash V, Osorio I, Paolo AM, Alexander LJ, Barr WB. The roles of semantic networks and search efficiency in verbal fluency performance in intractable temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy Research 1995; 21: 19–26
  • Roberts GW. Temporal lobe pathology and schizophrenia. Neurobiology and psychiatry, R Kerwin. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY 1991; 15–38

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.