TY - JOUR
T1 - Cognitive performance of male adolescents is lower than controls across psychiatric disorders
T2 - A population-based study
AU - Weiser, Mark
AU - Reichenberg, A.
AU - Rabinowitz, J.
AU - Knobler, H. Y.
AU - Lubin, G.
AU - Yazvitzky, R.
AU - Nahon, D.
AU - Gur, R. C.
AU - Davidson, M.
PY - 2004/12
Y1 - 2004/12
N2 - Objective: Psychiatric patients, as well as humans or experimental animals with brain lesions, often concurrently manifest behavioral deviations and subtle cognitive impairments. This study tested the hypothesis that as a group, adolescents suffering from psychiatric disorders score worse on cognitive tests compared with controls. Method: As part of the assessment for eligibility to serve in the military, the entire, unselected population of 16-17-year old male Israelis undergo cognitive testing and screening for psychopathology by the Draft Board. We retrieved the cognitive test scores of 19 075 adolescents who were assigned any psychiatric diagnosis, and compared them with the scores of 243 507 adolescents without psychiatric diagnoses. Results: Mean test scores of cases were significantly poorer then controls for all diagnostic groups, except for eating disorders. Effect sizes ranged from 0.3 to 1.6. Conclusion: As group, adolescent males with psychiatric disorders manifest at least subtle impairments in cognitive functioning.
AB - Objective: Psychiatric patients, as well as humans or experimental animals with brain lesions, often concurrently manifest behavioral deviations and subtle cognitive impairments. This study tested the hypothesis that as a group, adolescents suffering from psychiatric disorders score worse on cognitive tests compared with controls. Method: As part of the assessment for eligibility to serve in the military, the entire, unselected population of 16-17-year old male Israelis undergo cognitive testing and screening for psychopathology by the Draft Board. We retrieved the cognitive test scores of 19 075 adolescents who were assigned any psychiatric diagnosis, and compared them with the scores of 243 507 adolescents without psychiatric diagnoses. Results: Mean test scores of cases were significantly poorer then controls for all diagnostic groups, except for eating disorders. Effect sizes ranged from 0.3 to 1.6. Conclusion: As group, adolescent males with psychiatric disorders manifest at least subtle impairments in cognitive functioning.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Cognition
KW - Population-based
KW - Psychiatric disorders
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=9444297309&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2004.00385.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2004.00385.x
M3 - ???researchoutput.researchoutputtypes.contributiontojournal.article???
C2 - 15521833
AN - SCOPUS:9444297309
SN - 0001-690X
VL - 110
SP - 471
EP - 475
JO - Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
JF - Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
IS - 6
ER -
