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메뉴E-ISSN : 2733-4538
This study was investigated about cognitive functions on the Korean Wechsler Intelligence Scale (KWIS) scatter analysis. Subjects were 179 schizophrenics, 48 bipolar disorders with manic episode, 50 neurotics diagnosed by psychiatrists based on criteria by DSM-Ⅲ-R(APA, 1987). Through the vocabulary scatter analysis and verbal mean score scatter analysis, it was found that the schizophrenics scored significantly the lowest in comprehension subtest compared with the bipolar disorders with manic episode and the neurotics. In the analysis of efficiency, all group showed the highest efficiency in digit span subtest and the lowest efficiency in vocabulary subtest. The results were discussed in regard to the cognitive function of the schizophrenics and the bipolar disorders with manic episode and were described the suggestion and limitation of the results.