The Montreal Cognitive Assessment as a Preliminary Assessment Tool in General Psychiatry

Diagnosing cognitive functions appears to be at least as important for the psychiatric patients functioning as axial symptoms of psychic disorders [1, 2, 3, 4]. The occurrence of cognitive disorders depending on their grounds determines recommendation for neurological (organically based disorders) or psychiatric (schizophrenia, affective disorders) rehabilitation. Two out of six symptom levels of schizophrenia understood as mind entropy [5] concern cognitive functioning: procedural sphere (executive functions and motor capacity), and neuropsychological variables (attention, memory and concentration impairment).
Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research