Good News - no major differences in memory and verbal learning for people who have schizophrenia vs. everyone else.
Conclusion:
We conclude that during midlife verbal learning and memory in schizophrenia mostly declines in a normative fashion with aging at the same rate as the general population.
Midlife is typically people 35 to 50 years old - since most people live to 70 to 100 years old.
Yes - this study indicates that your learning and memory changes (on average - which doesn’t mean you specifically) isn’t significantly different than people who don’t have schizophrenia
What they are saying is that there after the initial psychosis, there is no additional hit on memory and verbal learning as a person ages (with schizophrenia).
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But the deterioration could be higher in patients with SZ type illnesses and the only thing this study is pointing out is that in midlife there seems to be no difference of degree in that. Were you offended in any away? (because of the bold styling)