PMID- 15840413
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20050901
LR  - 20151119
IS  - 0165-1781 (Print)
IS  - 0165-1781 (Linking)
VI  - 134
IP  - 2
DP  - 2005 Apr 15
TI  - Social cognitive problem-solving in schizophrenia: associations with fluency and 
      verbal memory.
PG  - 123-9
AB  - This study assessed the relationship between social functioning and 
      neurocognitive function in individuals with schizophrenia. Social cognitive 
      problem-solving (SCPS) is a significant contributor to social competence and is 
      an aspect of information processing that is involved in the identification and 
      resolution of interpersonal or social problems. We examined 49 schizophrenia 
      patients and 28 healthy controls using the means-ends problem-solving procedure 
      (MEPS) for SCPS, the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT), the Wisconsin 
      Card Sorting Test (WCST), and a series of fluency tests for neurocognitive 
      assessment, as well as the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) and the 
      Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF). Fluency tests can be used to evaluate 
      divergent thinking, and a qualitative analysis was done of the fluency test 
      responses. The results suggest that patients with schizophrenia have a 
      significantly poorer MEPS performance than normal controls. In patients with 
      normal RAVLT scores, MEPS scores were correlated with task-modified responses on 
      the fluency test but not with any of the WCST scores. This suggests that SCPS is 
      related to divergent thinking that requires concept flexibility and/or the 
      conversion of viewpoint in patients with schizophrenia in whom verbal memory 
      function is preserved.
FAU - Yamashita, Chiyo
AU  - Yamashita C
AD  - Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 
      Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.
FAU - Mizuno, Masafumi
AU  - Mizuno M
FAU - Nemoto, Takahiro
AU  - Nemoto T
FAU - Kashima, Haruo
AU  - Kashima H
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Ireland
TA  - Psychiatry Res
JT  - Psychiatry research
JID - 7911385
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Affect
MH  - *Cognition
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - International Classification of Diseases
MH  - Interpersonal Relations
MH  - Male
MH  - *Memory
MH  - Neuropsychological Tests
MH  - *Problem Solving
MH  - Psychological Tests
MH  - *Schizophrenia
MH  - *Social Behavior
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - *Verbal Behavior
EDAT- 2005/04/21 09:00
MHDA- 2005/09/02 09:00
CRDT- 2005/04/21 09:00
PHST- 2004/02/06 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2004/06/12 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2005/04/21 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2005/09/02 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2005/04/21 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0165-1781(05)00033-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.psychres.2004.06.018 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Psychiatry Res. 2005 Apr 15;134(2):123-9. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2004.06.018.