A comparison of two measures of deterioration in psychotic patients.

Some effects of sodium amytal on "deteriorated" schizophrenics.

“…A familiar sight in any institution is the well-preserved paranoid schizophrenic of many years standing. This study further suggests that no matter what Wechsler's deterioration ratio does measure [3,4,10,11], it does not seem applicable to schizophrenic deterioration, as no relationship between these ratios and the data could be detected. 4 Of striking interest, but difficult to evaluate, were the results obtained through the use of amytal with patients otherwise untestable.…”

The validity of some psychological tests of brain damage.

“…Each design, with one exception, can be duplicated only by putting together specific pieces out of the 19 provided. In the standardization of these tests, Armitage used as subjects 44 The genesis and construction of the Block Design Rotation Test has been described in three articles by Shapiro (61,62,63). This test resulted from the observation that some patients, while doing the Goldstein block design test, left the completed design in a rotated position compared with the test figure.…”

Use of the Shipley-Hartford Conceptual Quotient as a measure of intellectual impairment.

“…The failure of Magaret and Simpson (1948) to find a correlation between the CQ and psychiatrists' ratings of "deterioration" casts some doubt on the assumption that the discrepancy between vocabulary and abstraction levels is proportionate to intellectual impairment. (It should be pointed out, however, that the psychiatrists' ratings were done 6 months after the test was taken and no evidence for the 1 This study was partially supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (M6029).…”