[Variants of cognitive development in children and adolescents with different forms of schizophrenia].

OBJECTIVE

To explore cognitive disorders in children and adolescents with schizophrenia from the perspective of cognitive dysontogenesis concept, assess severity and specificity of cognitive deficits and identify variants of the dynamics and types of cognitive development.

MATERIAL AND

METHODS

Three diagnostic groups of patients were studied: 1) childhood onset schizophrenia, 2) schizotypal disorder, and 3) other types of schizophrenia. RESULTS AND СONCLUSION: There was a predomination of cognitive development types, named cognitive dysontogenesis, which structure was determined by a combination of the dynamics of cognitive development and severity of cognitive deficits. Severity and type of the dynamics of cognitive deficits were associated with the diagnosis and cognitive process.