To elucidate the relationship between course and disorders of information processing (selective attention and thought) in schizophrenics, we analyzed the data of 20 chronic schizophrenics, 7 reccurent schizophrenics, and 8/normal controls.
Subjects were tested on dichotic listening tasks in which continuos prose messages and obstacle sounds or competing messages were presented, or binaural listening tasks in which pairs of prose messages were presented. Subjects were required to shadow one passage and ignore the other or obstacle sound.
The results were interprered within the framework of Broadbent's model of information processing supported by Pribram's concept of "Plan".
The results obtained were summarized as follows.
1.　Chronic schizophrenics had defects at Stimulus Set, Response Set, and Plan. On the other hand, reccurent schizophrenics had defect only at Response Set.
By these results we comfirmed that primary defect in schizophrenics were Response Set.
2.　Chronic schizophrenics recalled generally less and more segmentary than reccurent schizophrenics. The correct recall was significantly chronic schizophrenics less than normal controls in the absence of obstacle sounds or competing messages. But in the presence of obstacle sounds or competing message chronic schizophrenics made wrong recall more than normal controls.
On the other hand, reccurent schizophrenics made recall as well as normal controls, whether obstacle sounds or competing messages were present or absent.

View full abstract

To clarify the important information for nursing assessment of intracranial bleeding of patients with leukemia, we have investigated 122 fatal cases of leukemia. Clinical symptoms appeared 15 days befor death were analyzed in 23 patients died of intracranial bleeding, and the following risk warning factors were obtained.
Important prodromal symptoms and data as risk warning factors of intracranial bleeding were 1) continuing and increasing headache (Nausea and/or vomiting, if present, suggest initial stage of bleeding), 2) continuing and increasing somnolence, uneasiness, and restlessness such as talkativeness irritable stage, emotional incontinence and insominia, 3) local paresthesia tremor and convulsion of face or extremity (sometimes disapper and reapper), 4) an increase in severity of bleeding symptoms and thrombocytopenia (platelet countless than 2×10⁴/mm³) and 5) the period of severe bone marrow suppression due to chemotherapy.

View full abstract