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To review the evidence for organic brain components and nonlocalizing neurological soft signs in patients diagnosed with functional psychiatric diseases.

February 1, 1970Archives of General Psychiatry

Neuropsychological Impairments in Functional Psychiatric Diseases

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JRJoseph RochfordDouglas College

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Review reveals widespread minor neurological impairments in functional psychiatric patients, indicating an underlying organic substrate for behavioral dysfunction.

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To review the evidence for organic brain components and nonlocalizing neurological soft signs in patients diagnosed with functional psychiatric diseases.
Reviewed literature evaluating the relationship between perinatal complications, early brain damage, and behavioral disorders.
Examined clinical neurological assessment methods used to detect movement disorders, perceptual impairments, and subtle organizational deviations in psychiatric populations.
A high proportion of individuals with psychiatric disorders, especially psychosis, exhibit nonlocalizing neurological abnormalities known as soft signs.
Evidence supports the hypothesis that these subtle neurological deviations represent the primary organic substrate responsible for impaired adaptive behavior.

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Joseph Rochford (1970) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a83690a954bb9d4ab71d5d7 https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1970.01740260018003

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Review reveals widespread minor neurological impairments in functional psychiatric patients, indicating an underlying organic substrate for behavioral dysfunction.

Neuropsychological Impairments in Functional Psychiatric Diseases

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