Article Neuropsychological Differences Between First-Admission Schizophrenia and Psychotic Affective Disorders

Objective: The study compared the neu-ropsychological functioning of patients with first-admission schizophrenia with that of patients with first-admission psy-chotic affective disorders. Method: Data came from the Suffolk County Mental Health Project, an epi-demiological study of first-admission psychotic disorders. Subjects with a diag-nosis of schizophrenia (N=102) and psy-chotic affective disorders, including bipo-lar disorder with psychotic features (N= 72) and major depressive disorder with psychotic features (N=49), were com-pared on a battery of neuropsychologica