Goldman, Gomer, and Templer (2) found that the Bender-Gestalt and Benton Visual Retention Test performances of male chronic schizophrenic in-patients with a history of 50 or more electroconvulsive treatments (ECT) were significantly inferior to those of control patients matched for age, level of education, and race. However, the authors maintained that it cannot be inferred with certainty that ECT causes permanent brain damage since it is possible that schizophrenic patients more likely to receive ECT are those whose psychosis is more severe. It has been reported that patients with the so-called functional psychiatric disorders tend to do poorly on tests of organicity (5).