Compared Halstead-Reitan Battery scores of hospitalized male schizophrenics with scores of normals and brain-damaged Ss to determine performance patterns that differentiate the groups. Schizophrenics performed less well than normals on the Categories, TPT-Memory, and TPT-Location subtests and better than brain-damaged Ss on all subtests except Categories. In general, the effects of medication produced nonsignificant results.

Reported anomalies in verbal communication by parents of schizophrenics were investigated. Content structured speech samples from IS sets of parents of good premorbid (GPM) and poor premorbid (PPM) schizophrenic daughters and nonpsychiatric controls (NPC) were obtained. These samples were analyzed by content area (neutral, aggression, dependency, and sex) for communicability, amount of speech anxiety, and source pathology. Communicativeness was assessed by cloze procedure using male and female college raters. Contrary to prediction, PPM parents tended to have the least amount of speech anxiety and the highest predictability, whereas NPC parents tended to have the highest speech anxiety and lowest predictability. However, raters tended to correctly identify which parents had the most disturbed offspring.