FUNCTIONAL IMAGING AND COGNITIVE ABNORMALITIES

Authors
Citation
C. Frith, FUNCTIONAL IMAGING AND COGNITIVE ABNORMALITIES, Lancet, 346(8975), 1995, pp. 615-620
Citations number
39
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
LancetACNP
ISSN journal
01406736
Volume
346
Issue
8975
Year of publication
1995
Pages
615 - 620
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-6736(1995)346:8975<615:FIACA>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
From its initial labelling as dementia praecox, the disorder we now ca ll schizophrenia has always been associated with cognitive impairments . While there was a time when these deficits were believed to be secon dary to treatment and institutionalisation, there is now overwhelming evidence that cognitive impairments are an essential feature of schizo phrenia. Precise specification of the form of these impairments has im portant implications for the nature of the underlying brain malfunctio n.