This study was an evaluation of the psychomotor profiles of 22 schizophrenic patients, investigated by means of a test battery developed for the assessment of psychomotor profiles of 10- to 12-year-old children. Analysis indicates chat abnormal psychomotor development is an inherent feature of the disease and probably is antecedent to a full psychopathological picture.
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