“Chronic painter's syndrome”. A reanalysis of psychological test data in a group of diagnosed cases, based on comparisons with matched controls
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“Chronic painter's syndrome”. A reanalysis of psychological test data in a group of diagnosed cases, based on comparisons with matched controls. / Gade, A.; Mortensen, E. L.; Bruhn, P.
In: Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, Vol. 77, No. 4, 04.1988, p. 293-306.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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T1 - “Chronic painter's syndrome”. A reanalysis of psychological test data in a group of diagnosed cases, based on comparisons with matched controls
AU - Gade, A.
AU - Mortensen, E. L.
AU - Bruhn, P.
PY - 1988/4
Y1 - 1988/4
N2 - ABSTRACT— Twenty solvent‐exposed workers, most of them painters, had been diagnosed as cases of toxic encephalopathy in 1978/79. Two years later they were re‐examined with an extensive battery of neuropsychological tests. Their performance was unchanged on retesting. We have now compared their test results with those of non‐exposed control subjects. Previous impressions of significant intellectual impairment in the solvent‐exposed patients could not be confirmed when the influence of age, education, and intelligence was taken into consideration. The present group with presumed toxic encephalopathy is assumed to be representative of other patients who were similarly diagnosed in our department. The presently reanalyzed cases had been diagnosed as brain damaged and reported as such in the literature. Thus, they may have contributed to the formation of the concept of the “chronic painters' syndrome” with dementia. 1988 Blackwell Munksgaard
AB - ABSTRACT— Twenty solvent‐exposed workers, most of them painters, had been diagnosed as cases of toxic encephalopathy in 1978/79. Two years later they were re‐examined with an extensive battery of neuropsychological tests. Their performance was unchanged on retesting. We have now compared their test results with those of non‐exposed control subjects. Previous impressions of significant intellectual impairment in the solvent‐exposed patients could not be confirmed when the influence of age, education, and intelligence was taken into consideration. The present group with presumed toxic encephalopathy is assumed to be representative of other patients who were similarly diagnosed in our department. The presently reanalyzed cases had been diagnosed as brain damaged and reported as such in the literature. Thus, they may have contributed to the formation of the concept of the “chronic painters' syndrome” with dementia. 1988 Blackwell Munksgaard
KW - intellectual impairment
KW - neuropsychological assessment
KW - painters
KW - solvents
KW - toxic encephalopathy
KW - white spirit
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0023907926&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1988.tb05913.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1988.tb05913.x
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 3389080
AN - SCOPUS:0023907926
VL - 77
SP - 293
EP - 306
JO - Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
JF - Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
SN - 0001-6314
IS - 4
ER -
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