Diagnosis of cognitive functions in recognizing the mental defect severity among patients with schizophrenia
The article is devoted to the diagnosis of mental functions among patients with schizophrenia in assessing the mental defect severity. It was found that the most informative indices in the differential diagnosis of the defect severity among patients with schizophrenia are indicators of mental functions, such as: the dynamics of thought, criticism, attention, concreteness of thinking, motivational and personal components of thinking, exhaustion of thinking, memory and distortion of the generalisation process. The pathopsychological diagnosis helps to objectify the process of assessing the mental defect degree among patients with schizophrenia by means of diagnostic rate tables.