X-Message-Number: 6120
From:  (David Stodolsky)
Subject: Termininal drop in mental function
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 96 13:01:34 +0100

"Those who died tended to manifest marked deterioration in performance
during the 6- to 12- month period preceding death (Lieberman, M., 
Psychological correlates of impending death: Some preliminary observations.
J. Geront., 1965, _20_, 181-190)." 

"There was lowered efficiency, diminished learning capacity, and
reduced complexity of organization in the same degree as subject's
proximity to death. Those who were closer to death also showed heightened
body preoccupation, lower expectation of gratification, and 
foreshortened future perspective (Lieberman, M., Vulnerability to
stress and the process of dying. Proc. 7th Internatl. Congress on
Gerontology, 1966. V. 8, 513-519)."


Cited in Weisman, A. D. & Kastenbaum, R. K. (1968).
The psychological autopsy. Community Mental Health Journal Monograph
No. 4. NY: NY.


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