Neuropsychological profile of schizophrenia with and without obsessive compulsive disorder

Thirty patients with schizo-obsessive disorder and 30 individually matched patients with schizophrenia without any obsessive-compulsive symptoms formed the sample of the study. Neuropsychological assessment included tests for attention, executive functions and memory. Patients with schizo-obsessive disorder did not differ from those with schizophrenia alone with respect to measures of attention, executive functions and memory. Our findings do not support unique neuropsychological profile of schizo-obsessive disorder. Studying a larger sample of drug-naive patients in a longitudinal design may provide us more insights in to this.