The findings support the notion that seating distance, as one channel of nonverbal communication, can affect the interviewer-patient relationship. (Author)

A comparison of plasma (pseudo) cholinesterase and erythrocyte (true) cholinesterase activity in 16 male childhood schizophrenic patients and 16 male nonpsychotic hospitalized controls revealed no significant differences between the two groups. (Author)

The most striking finding is that schizophrenic women appear capable of creating, at will, favorable or unfavorable impressions. These results support the idea that schizophrenics can be effective in some social situations. The existance of individual differences in schizophrenic women's interpersonal skills was only partially supported.…

Research supported by Public Health Service Research Grant M-5353 from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Video therapy tapes that incorporated self-modeling, structured rehearsal, projective rehearsal, and systematic social reinforcement were effective in shaping a 15-year-old schizophrenic girl's appropriate grammatical and contextual use of language. (CL)

The results showed the schizophrenic group to be similar to the controls on verbal and full-scale intelligence measures but significantly inferior on performance measures. The schizophrenic group also showed a general disadvantage in paired associate learning, with a trend toward specific differential difficulty with words as stimulus items.…

Explores the impact of having a schizophrenic sibling. Subjects functioned at high levels of adjustment. Separated from their families, there followed a period of reinvolvement, including responsibility for the ill sibling. Younger siblings expressed guilt over being well, whereas older siblings expressed guilt over earlier sibling rivalry.…