Lameda TK, Rodríguez LG

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: the cognitive disorders are important symptoms in Schizophrenia. Prompt functions are studied due to they are predictable on the social functions of these patients.
Objective: to assess the prompt functions on a group of schizophrenic patients.
Methods: a transversal, non experimental, comparative and descriptive study was carried out during the period from March to December, 2011at the psychiatric service of “Hermanos Ameijeiras”, Havana. The group was formed by ten schizophrenic patients and the control by ten healthy individuals; both groups are equal according to age, sex and scholar level. They were examined with Wisconsin Cards Sentence Test (WCST) and a neuropsychological clinical investigation formed by four classic tasks.
Results: the work memory differentiated significantly the groups (p=0, 0007). Intention to finish task, total of errors, % of errors, persevering responses and a % of persevering errors were the estimations of WCST.
Conclusions: the individuals suffering from Schizophrenia presented alterations in the proportions of the prompt functions, sequence and planning, keeping and handling information and controlling – feeding back. The indicators of non executable on schizophrenic patients were perseverance, absent of inhibition, inefficacy on the solution of task, deficit in the work memory and inability to transfer solutions to analogue situations. They kept the capacity of thinking abstraction, initial conceptualization and the sequence of motor actions.

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