Base-rate data on subtest scatter for the WAIS-R was obtained from a sample of 200 healthy subjects recruited to match the adult UK population in terms of age, sex and social class distribution. Tables are presented which permit an assessment of the abnormality (i.e. rarity) of an individual's pattern of WAIS-R performance in terms of subtest range and subtest deviations from an individual's su...

Three-hundred and two psychiatric inpatients (166 women and 136 men) completed Masling, Rabie, and Blondheim's Rorschach Oral Dependency (ROD) Scale and the Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale Revised (WAIS-R). As predicted, ROD scale scores were unrelated to WAIS-R scores in subjects of either sex. These findings support the discriminant validity of the ROD scale as a measure of interpersonal de...

The main purpose of the present research study was to compare cognitive outcomes in 4-year children who had previously been fed (during the first year of life) infant formula without or with long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) as DHA omega-3 (docosahexaenoic acid ) plus AA omega-6 (arachidonic acid) along with those infants who were breast-fed . The PUFA enriched formula contained DHA...

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for psychosis (CBTp) aims to lower the stress of psychotic symptoms. Given that the pituitary is involved in stress regulation, CBT-led stress reduction may be accompanied by a change in pituitary volume. This study aimed to determine whether CBTp reduces pituitary volume in schizophrenia. The relation between pre-therapy memory and CBTp-led pituitary volume ...

The main objective of this study was to compare a "traditional" test of memory, the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised (WMS-R; Wechsler, 1987) with a behavioral evaluation test, the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test (RBMT; Wilson, Cockburn, & Baddeley, 1985). Eighty volunteers participated in the study and were divided into four groups: 20 older adults with memory problems, 20 patients with temporal...

In 15 normotensive subjects, 17 newly diagnosed, untreated hypertensive patients, and 22 effectively treated hypertensive patients, a battery of neuropsychological tests was given. All subjects were neurologically asymptomatic. The neuropsychological battery included tests evaluating global cognitive functions (Card Sorting Test, Wechsler Memory Scale, Progressive Matrices 1938), as well as spe...

In several studies, suppressed Digit Span performance has been proposed as a potential marker for deliberately poor performance in a neuropsychological evaluation. The purpose of this study was to document Digit Span performance patterns in the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition (WAIS-III; ) standardization sample and selected clinical groups. Base rate tables were generated for th...