• SARAH JAVED
• Suhail Ahmed Azmi
• Deoshree Akhouri

Background: Cognitive deficits have become an important focus for psychiatric research in major psychiatric disorders. There has been a great interest in the patients with Schizophrenia on a broad range of neuropsychological tests in the last two decades. These deficits involve usually memory, attention and executive function. Objectives: To study the socio-demographic profiles of Schizophrenic patients and normal control and to assess and compare cognitive functions among the patients of Schizophrenia disorder and normal control. Material and Methods: 100 schizophrenic patients as per ICD 10 who came to Psychiatry OPD and 100 normal controls of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India were recruited for the study. Results: Schizophrenic patients were found to be having significant level of cognitive impairment as compared to normal controls.

Memory, Impairment, Schizophrenia

"MEMORY IMPAIRMENT IN PATIENTS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 3, page no.38-43, March-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1803009.pdf

"MEMORY IMPAIRMENT IN PATIENTS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 3, page no. pp38-43, March-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1803009.pdf