Gender differences in neuropsychological test performance among people with negative schizophrenia
| dc.contributor.author | Roberts, Kathrine Ashley | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-26T08:59:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-03-26T08:59:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-03-26 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Gender differences in certain frontal lobe functions were assessed in 40 people (20 men and 20 women) with negative Schizophrenia and 40 people (20 men and 20 women) without any history of psychiatric illnesses. The results indicated that there were few statistically significant differences for certain frontal lobe functions for the men and the women in the Schizophrenic group. One explanation that was provided for these results was that the lack of sex differences in certain frontal functions may be pathognomonic to Schizophrenia, as statistically significant gender differences were found in the Control group on particular tasks that measure frontal lobe functions. The second component of this research compared the results of certain frontal lobe functions in the negative Schizophrenic cohort (N = 40) and the Control group (N = 40). It was found that on most of the measures of frontal lobe functioning the negative Schizophrenic group, displayed greater impairment in these functions than the Control group. Such results provide further evidence that many people with negative Schizophrenia have deficits in frontal • lobe functioning. The results of this research a re preliminary, as there appears to be no other study of its kind that has been conducted in South Africa. Thus, it is suggested that this research should be replicated in order to determine whether such differences do exist for men and women with Schizophrenia, as such results have implications for aetiology, prognosis and treatment. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net10539/14341 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Gender differences in neuropsychological test performance among people with negative schizophrenia | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_ZA |