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V R Adebimpe

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PubMed1989

Schizophrenia and affective disorder in black and white patients: a methodologic note.

Contrary to many published reports of higher rates of schizophrenia and lower rates of affective disorder among blacks, this analysis of data collected over a ten-year period in a psychiatric clinic that serves a predominantly black population found minimal differences between the two ethnic groups. Methodologic considerations that reduce spurious black-white differences are discussed. The authors urge proper caution in evaluating such reported differences and propose screening measures to identify biased diagnostic procedures.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

MMPI diagnosis of black psychiatric patients.

Black-white differences in MMPI norms may lead to significant misclassification of black psychiatric patients, which can compound diagnostic errors from other sources. The authors suggest that clinicians who use MMPI results in evaluations of black patients interpret test reports carefully, keeping in mind the possibility of spuriously elevated scores and paying careful attention to areas of potential "false positives."

Adolescent↗
PubMed1977

Complex partial seizures simulating schizophrenia .

The clinical features that distinguish schizophrenia from the symptomatic psychoses were seen in a patient whose complex partial seizures remained undiagnosed for five years, resulting in 30 psychiatric hospitalizations.

Adult↗