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Relationship between mood and digit-symbol performance in hospitalized patients with functional psychiatric disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Richard E. Luria
Richard E. Luria
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, New York Hospital—WestchesterDivision—Cornell Medical Center, New York 10605, U.S.A.
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Sysnopsis

This paper reports the relationship between mood, as measured by the Visual Analogue Mood Scale, and digit-symbol performance within individual hospitalized patients in a consecutive series of admissions with functional psychiatric disorders. It confirms the earlier finding of Folstein and Luria that a significant mood-digit-symbol relationship distinguishes clear cases of affective psychoses from clear non-affective disorders. Furthermore, it shows that, among patients who do not present with classical affective syndromes, those who manifest a significant mood-digit-symbol relationship tend to receive specific treatments for mood disturbances, have a positive family history of depression or mania, and improve significantly at discharge.

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Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , November 1974 , pp. 454 - 459
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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