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Studies in Learning Impairment. I: Schizophrenic and Organic Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

K. R. L. Hall  and
T. G. Crookes
K. R. L. Hall
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Bristol Mental Hospitals
T. G. Crookes
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Bristol Mental Hospitals
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Ability to learn and retain relatively unfamiliar materials has been shown to be impaired in many clinical syndromes, both organic and functional. The testing of this ability features in some form or other in several clinical tests of intelligence, such as the Wechsler Scale and the Binet, while it is more directly tested in the various memory scales. As is well known, efficiency of learning declines with age, and can be greatly reduced by organic brain damage. There is evidence also, which we shall briefly review, that it can be variably reduced in schizophrenia and in psychoneurosis.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 97 , Issue 409 , October 1951 , pp. 725 - 737
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1951 

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