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Clock drawing test in elderly schizophrenia patients
Author(s)	Jeremia Heinik, Zippi Vainer-Benaiah, Debbi Lahav
Journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 12, no 6, June 1997
Pages	pp 653-655
Keywords	Schizophrenia ; Assessment procedures for mental patients ; Israel.
Annotation	The authors examined clock drawing ability in schizophrenia inpatients aged 60 to 76 years in a psychiatric hospital in Israel, seeking possible correlations with demographic, clinical and cognitive variables. The clock drawing item from the Cambridge Cognitive Examination (CAMCOG) was used to retrospectively analyse drawing skills, in which a significant proportion of schizophrenics are impaired. When this test is used as a screen for Alzheimer's (AD) in these patients, the results should be interpreted cautiously. Clock drawing abilities in these patients seem to be related to cognitive and non-cognitive (psychiatric state) factors, as well as to illness duration.
Accession Number	CPA-970807246 A
Classmark	ELK: DA:4C: 7H6
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