PMID- 16472360
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20060530
LR  - 20071115
IS  - 1323-1316 (Print)
IS  - 1323-1316 (Linking)
VI  - 60
IP  - 1
DP  - 2006 Feb
TI  - Relation between social functioning and neurocognitive test results using the 
      Optional Thinking Test in schizophrenia.
PG  - 63-9
AB  - The current study investigated the relationship between clinical evaluations of 
      social functioning and neurocognitive test results, including various fluency 
      tests for assessing divergent thinking, in patients with schizophrenia. The 
      Optional Thinking Test (OTT) was used to measure the ability of individuals to 
      conceive of alternatives. This test assesses alternative thinking, or the 
      capacity to generate solutions to problems. The current study examined 36 
      schizophrenia patients and 25 normal subjects using the Mini-Mental State 
      Examination (MMSE), the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT), the Letter 
      Cancellation Test (LCT), the Letter and Category Fluency Tests, and the OTT for 
      neurocognitive assessment, as well as the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale 
      (PANSS), the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF), the Social Functioning Scale 
      (SFS), and the Life Assessment Scale for the Mentally Ill - Interpersonal 
      Relations (LASMI-I) for clinical measures. The schizophrenia patients had 
      significantly poorer performances on the MMSE, RAVLT, LCT (time), fluency tests, 
      and OTT than the controls. In the OTT, the proportions of classified strategies 
      were indistinguishable between the schizophrenia patients and the controls. 
      Alternative thinking, as measured by the OTT, was correlated with verbal fluency 
      and attention but was not correlated with the social functioning scores (GAF, 
      SFS, LASMI-I), whereas the Means-Ends Problem-Solving was correlated with the GAF 
      in schizophrenia. Patients with schizophrenia could conceive of the same 
      categories of alternatives as healthy people, but could not conceive as many 
      alternatives.
FAU - Chino, Bun
AU  - Chino B
AD  - Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
FAU - Mizuno, Masafumi
AU  - Mizuno M
FAU - Nemoto, Takahiro
AU  - Nemoto T
FAU - Yamashita, Chiyo
AU  - Yamashita C
FAU - Kashima, Haruo
AU  - Kashima H
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Australia
TA  - Psychiatry Clin Neurosci
JT  - Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
JID - 9513551
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Attention
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Interpersonal Relations
MH  - Male
MH  - Mental Status Schedule/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Neuropsychological Tests/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Problem Solving
MH  - Psychiatric Status Rating Scales/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Psychometrics/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Reference Values
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Schizophrenia/*diagnosis/rehabilitation
MH  - *Schizophrenic Psychology
MH  - *Social Adjustment
MH  - Social Behavior
MH  - Statistics as Topic
MH  - *Thinking
MH  - Verbal Behavior
EDAT- 2006/02/14 09:00
MHDA- 2006/05/31 09:00
CRDT- 2006/02/14 09:00
PHST- 2006/02/14 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2006/05/31 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/02/14 09:00 [entrez]
AID - PCN [pii]
AID - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2006.01461.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2006 Feb;60(1):63-9. doi: 
      10.1111/j.1440-1819.2006.01461.x.