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  • Title: Premorbid performance IQ deficit in schizophrenia.
    Author: Amminger GP, Schlögelhofer M, Lehner T, Looser Ott S, Friedrich MH, Aschauer HN.
    Journal: Acta Psychiatr Scand; 2000 Dec; 102(6):414-22. PubMed ID: 11142429.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: Performance IQ (PIQ) is often lower than verbal IQ (VIQ) in schizophrenic patients. Whether PIQ < VIQ precedes psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia remains uncertain. METHOD: We investigated premorbid IQ scores in 63 subjects assessed at a child and adolescent psychiatric unit (mean age 13.1 years, SD 3.2), who at follow-up in adulthood (mean age 30.9 years, SD 3.9) received a lifetime RDC diagnosis of schizophrenia-related psychosis, affective disorder, or no psychiatric disorder. RESULTS: Premorbid PIQ < VIQ significantly differentiated the groups with schizophrenia-related psychosis and no psychiatric disorder. Subjects with schizophrenia-related psychosis had a significantly lower mean value for premorbid PIQ, but not VIQ, compared to subjects who developed affective disorder or subjects without psychiatric disorder. CONCLUSION: Our results emphasize premorbid intellectual deficits in schizophrenia. Those deficits might largely be in consequence of an impairment on the PIQ scale.
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