Correlations between age, biomedical variables, and cognition in patients with schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To illustrate the influence of clinical variables on cognition performance in patients with schizophrenia (SCZ).

Methods

Using the 66nao Brain Training device (a novel measurement tool), the cognitive performance of 99 patients with SCZ was evaluated. Patients were diagnosed by the ICD-10 diagnostic criteria for SCZ, and their age were 16-68 years old. Furthermore, we explored the relationship between age, biomedical variables and specific cognitive domains in patients with SCZ. Patients were divided into two groups: various of cognitive domains impairment group and non-impairment group according to the norm scores. All data were analyzed using RStudio Version 1.0.44 (RStudio, Inc.).

Results

Patients with SCZ had obvious cognitive impairment in total and fiv

SUBMITTER: Tang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7303996 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature