Conversion disorder in children and adolescents: A disorder of cognitive control
| Autor: | Leanne M. Williams, Donna M. Palmer, Fiona Davies, Kerri J. Brown, Catherine Chudleigh, Stephen Scher, Kasia Kozlowska |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Cognitive Neuroscience Statistics as Topic Neuropsychological Tests Audiology Verbal learning Severity of Illness Index Developmental psychology Executive Function Behavioral Neuroscience Memory span medicine Humans Attention Child Conversion disorder Retrospective Studies Recall Working memory Cognition medicine.disease Distress Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Conversion Disorder Case-Control Studies Female Cognition Disorders Psychology Neurocognitive |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Neuropsychology. 9:87-108 |
| ISSN: | 1748-6645 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jnp.12037 |
| Popis: | Objective To assess cognitive function in children and adolescents presenting with acute conversion symptoms. Methods Fifty-seven participants aged 8.5–18 years (41 girls and 16 boys) with conversion symptoms and 57 age- and gender-matched healthy controls completed the IntegNeuro neurocognitive battery, an estimate of intelligence, and self-report measures of subjective emotional distress. Results Participants with conversion symptoms showed poorer performance within attention, executive function, and memory domains. Poorer performance was reflected in more errors on specific tests: Switching of Attention (t(79) = 2.17, p = .03); Verbal Interference (t(72) = 2.64, p = .01); Go/No-Go (t(73) = 2.20, p = .03); Memory Recall and Verbal Learning (interference errors for memory recall; t(61) = 3.13, p |
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