정신분열 병환자와 기질성 뇌 증후군환자에 있어서 KWIS 하위검사들의 비교

Comparison o f KWIS Subscales between Schizophrenics and Patients with Organic Brain Syndrome

In order to compare the congnitive functions between schizophrenia and organic brain syndrome, the authors performed Korean Wechsler Intelligence Scale(KWIS) for 30 schizophrenics and 30 patients with organic brain syndrome. Schizophrenics ,had significantly higher scores than patients with organic brain syndrome on the subscales of ‘information’, ‘similarities’ and ‘block design’ of KWIS, but no significantly differences were found between the two groups on the subscales of ‘comprehension’, ‘arithmetic’ and ‘picture arrangement’ of KWIS. These findings suggest that schizophrenics might be less impaired than patients with organic brain syndrome in the cognitive functions which required only simple memory or spontanous visuomotor task, but there seemed to be no differences between two groups in those cognitive functions which required more complex, abstract and logical thinking or sustained attention.