Intelligence and Neurosis in Old Age

Nunn, Chris; Bergmann, K.; Britton, Peter G.; Foster, E. M.; Hall, Elizabeth H.; Kay, D. W. K.

doi:10.1192/bjp.124.5.446

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“…[9,10] The importance of intelligence in the genesis of neurotic illness has been reported in the literature. [11][12][13] The intellectual functioning of patients with dissociative disorders has been studied, but the results are very inconsistent, as some studies report average intellectual functioning in dissociative disorders, whereas some other studies report decreased baseline intellectual quotient or presence of scatters on intellectual testing. [14][15][16] The presence of scatter on intelligence subtests indicates the presence of neurocognitive deficits which may be an important causal factor of dissociation.…”

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Neuro-Cognition in Adolescents with Dissociative Disorder: A Study from a Tertiary Care Center of North India

Dixit¹,

Singh²,

Kar³

et al. 2019

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

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Background: Dissociative disorder is a common neurotic disorder. Patients with dissociative disorder experience significant psychological distress and have deficits in various domains of neurocognitive functions. Objective: To assess the neurocognitive functioning of adolescents diagnosed with dissociative disorder and compare it with that of healthy controls. Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional observational study conducted on adolescents diagnosed with dissociative disorder, attending child and adolescent specialty clinic of a tertiary care hospital of North India from October 2016 to February 2017. Healthy control subjects were also recruited for comparison on study variables. Malin's Intelligence Scale for Indian children and standardized neuropsychological tools were administered for the assessment of intellectual functioning and neurocognitive functioning. Results: A total of 50 participants with dissociative disorder and 50 healthy controls completed the study. Participants of both the groups had an average level of intellectual functioning. Participants with dissociative disorder showed poorer performance on tasks of attention and executive functions. After the Bonferroni correction, deficits were detected in the domains of coding ( P = 0.0012), maze ( P = 0.0001), and mathematics ( P = 0.0016). Conclusions: Adolescents with dissociative disorder have impaired neurocognitive functions in comparison to healthy controls.

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Neuro-Cognition in Adolescents with Dissociative Disorder: A Study from a Tertiary Care Center of North India

Dixit¹,

Singh²,

Kar³

et al. 2019

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

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“…Another diagnostic problem occurs mainly in elderly people of lower social status who have forms of neurotic pseudodementia showing anxiety, depression with apathy, forgetfulness, and poor results in the WAIS intelli gence test [Nunn et al, 1974]. The neurotic pscudodementia in these cases is considered to be a specific emotional response to social stress, old age, and low intellectual capabilities.…”

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Depressive Syndromes in Middle Age and Organic Brain Disease

Ladurner¹,

Pieringer²,

Sager³

1981

Psychopathology

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41 patients with a depressive syndrome in middle age (mean age 55 years) were investigated. 19 of them had purely monopolar depressive syndromes without any organic features; 22 patients had a depressive syndrome associated with an organic brain disease (11 vascular, 11 primary degenerative disease). In all patients psychiatric and neurological investigations, a WAIS test, an EEG and a computer tomography were performed. The clinical findings were significantly different in both groups of depression but there was still a considerable overlap of symptoms. The EEG was inconclusive, the psychological test (WAIS) and the computer tomography showed the clearest separation between the organic and the nonorganic depressions leaving only 10% of inconclusive findings. Therefore, it may be concluded that the differential diagnosis of organic or nonorganic depressive syndrome in middle age cannot be made on the basis of one investigation on its own but on the combined results of clinical, functional, and morphological examinations.

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“…53,54 Vulnerability factors such as fearfulness, neuroticism and intelligence are also under a degree of genetic control. [55][56][57][58] The contribution of genetic factors to affective disorders diminishes with age, but it is not known if this is also true of neurotic disorders. Neuroimaging studies of brain structure and function have yet to contribute significantly to our understanding of neurotic disorders in the elderly.…”

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