Medicine (RMH Academic Centre) - Research Publications

Permanent URI for this collection

http://hdl.handle.net/11343/192919

Filters

2016 2
2
Reset filters

Settings
Statistics
Citations
Author: Neill, Erica × End date: 2016 ×

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
  • Item
    Thumbnail Image
    The dopamine D1 receptor gene is associated with negative schizotypy in a non-clinical sample
    Gurvich, C ; Tan, EJ ; Bozaoglu, K ; Neill, E ; Louise, S ; Van Rheenen, TE ; Rossell, SL (ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, 2016-01-30)
  • Item
    Thumbnail Image
    Does cognitive performance map to categorical diagnoses of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder? A discriminant functions analysis
    Van Rheenen, TE ; Bryce, S ; Tan, EJ ; Neill, E ; Gurvich, C ; Louise, S ; Rossell, SL (ELSEVIER, 2016-03-01)
    OBJECTIVES: Despite known overlaps in the pattern of cognitive impairments in individuals with bipolar disorder (BD), schizophrenia (SZ) and schizoaffective disorder (SZA), few studies have examined the extent to which cognitive performance validates traditional diagnostic boundaries in these groups. METHOD: Individuals with SZ (n=49), schizoaffective disorder (n=33) and BD (n=35) completed a battery of cognitive tests measuring the domains of processing speed, immediate memory, semantic memory, learning, working memory, executive function and sustained attention. RESULTS: A discriminant functions analysis revealed a significant function comprising semantic memory, immediate memory and processing speed that maximally separated patients with SZ from those with BD. Initial classification scores on the basis of this function showed modest diagnostic accuracy, owing in part to the misclassification of SZA patients as having SZ. When SZA patients were removed from the model, a second cross-validated classifier yielded slightly improved diagnostic accuracy and a single function solution, of which semantic memory loaded most heavily. CONCLUSIONS: A cluster of non-executive cognitive processes appears to have some validity in mapping onto traditional nosological boundaries. However, since semantic memory performance was the primary driver of the discrimination between BD and SZ, it is possible that performance differences between the disorders in this cognitive domain in particular, index separate underlying aetiologies.