Sağlıklı Bireylerde Nöropsikolojik Değerlendirme Sonuçlarının Nörolojik İşaretlerle Bağıntısının Araştırılması
Mehmet Çakıcı, Serhat Çıtak, Ebru Çakıcı, İsmail Küçükali, Demet Yandım, Sahap Erkoç, Oğuz Arkonaç
Article No:
7
Article Type :
Research
The clinical reflection of central nervous system dysfunction can be assessed by with neuropsychologic tests with hard and soft neurological signs. This study is planned to investigate the correlation between the performance of cognitive functions and neurological signs in normal volunteers. 89 healthy volunteers (43 men, 46 women) echo not have the psychiatric disorder, general medical disorder nor substance dependencelabuse and who still have a job were included in the study. Sociodemographic features ofthe subjects were asked and neuropsychological test battery of 12 tests were giyen and hard-soft neurological signs were examined Pearson and Spearmen correlation methods were used to investigate correlations. Average age of the cases were found to be 36.0±8.10 years and average education was 12.20±4.80 years. Total score of soft neurological signs had moderate correlation with visual-spatial perception function and weak negative correlations with executive function, verbal and visual memory and spatial distibution of attention functions (values between r=-0.41, -0.55, p=0.00). Weak negative correlations were found between rhytm test of soft neurologic signs and attention function, and between immediate memory test and verbal-visual memory function performance (values between r=-0.41, -0.44, p=0.00). Hard neurologic signs were not found in any of the cases. In normal volunteers negative correlation is found between the performance of cognitive functions and some of the soft neurologic signs. This correlation may stern from the minimal neuropathology found in normal volunteers and also can be affected by the low test performance.
Keywords :
Healthy persons, neurolopsychological tests, neurological signs
Dusunen Adam : The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences :
1998;11:46-52
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