The utility of the wisconsin card sorting test in differential diagnosis of cognitive disorders in Iranian psychiatric patients and healthy subjects.
The Wisconsin Test Card Sorting Test (WCST) is a neuropsychological test that has been suggested as a more specific test for frontal lobes dysfunctions. This study was designed to determine whether WCST is able to differentiate between Iranian psychiatric patients with cognitive disorders and normal...
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| description | The Wisconsin Test Card Sorting Test (WCST) is a neuropsychological test that has been suggested as a more specific test for frontal lobes dysfunctions. This study was designed to determine whether WCST is able to differentiate between Iranian psychiatric patients with cognitive disorders and normal subjects, and whether WCST scores are related to severity of symptoms in depressive and schizophrenic patients.PARTICIPANTS WERE FOUR GROUPS: schizophrenics with positive symptoms (n=25); schizophrenics with negative symptoms (n=25); major depressives (n=25); and normal subjects (n=25). All subjects were tested individually using WCST. To analyze the data, various descriptive statistics, ANOVA, t-test and multiple regression analysis were used.Regarding the number of categories (P |
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| spelling | doaj.art-68b3fce29abb4e74987d341288f757bb2022-12-21T19:18:41ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesIranian Journal of Psychiatry1735-45872008-22152011-09-0163The utility of the wisconsin card sorting test in differential diagnosis of cognitive disorders in Iranian psychiatric patients and healthy subjects.Changiz Rahimi0Razieh Hashemi1Norolah Mohamadi2Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Shiraz University, IranDepartment of Clinical Psychology, Shiraz University, IranAssociate Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Shiraz University, IranThe Wisconsin Test Card Sorting Test (WCST) is a neuropsychological test that has been suggested as a more specific test for frontal lobes dysfunctions. This study was designed to determine whether WCST is able to differentiate between Iranian psychiatric patients with cognitive disorders and normal subjects, and whether WCST scores are related to severity of symptoms in depressive and schizophrenic patients.PARTICIPANTS WERE FOUR GROUPS: schizophrenics with positive symptoms (n=25); schizophrenics with negative symptoms (n=25); major depressives (n=25); and normal subjects (n=25). All subjects were tested individually using WCST. To analyze the data, various descriptive statistics, ANOVA, t-test and multiple regression analysis were used.Regarding the number of categories (Phttps://ijps.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijps/article/view/263CognitionDepressionFrontal lobeSchizophrenia |
| spellingShingle | Changiz Rahimi Razieh Hashemi Norolah Mohamadi The utility of the wisconsin card sorting test in differential diagnosis of cognitive disorders in Iranian psychiatric patients and healthy subjects. Iranian Journal of Psychiatry Cognition Depression Frontal lobe Schizophrenia |
| title | The utility of the wisconsin card sorting test in differential diagnosis of cognitive disorders in Iranian psychiatric patients and healthy subjects. |
| title_full | The utility of the wisconsin card sorting test in differential diagnosis of cognitive disorders in Iranian psychiatric patients and healthy subjects. |
| title_fullStr | The utility of the wisconsin card sorting test in differential diagnosis of cognitive disorders in Iranian psychiatric patients and healthy subjects. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The utility of the wisconsin card sorting test in differential diagnosis of cognitive disorders in Iranian psychiatric patients and healthy subjects. |
| title_short | The utility of the wisconsin card sorting test in differential diagnosis of cognitive disorders in Iranian psychiatric patients and healthy subjects. |
| title_sort | utility of the wisconsin card sorting test in differential diagnosis of cognitive disorders in iranian psychiatric patients and healthy subjects |
| topic | Cognition Depression Frontal lobe Schizophrenia |
| url | https://ijps.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijps/article/view/263 |
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