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2018-04-30 13:26:02
Respected sir Let suffose a person is suffering from serious mental illness and that time the IQ test score is 57.After treatment he get cured and normal .Again is IQ tested and this time the IQ score is in between 85-115(normal range).Is it possible??
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This is not uncommon. Many mental illnesses such as Schizophrenia are associated with cognitive impairment and IQ assessed during symptomatic period can be lower than that assessed after improvement. Any test report has to be clinically correlated.

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