Indirect task instructions better reveal theory-of-mind impairment, independent of executive dysfunction, in schizophrenia
| Autor: | Emily Connaughton, Michael H. Connors, Robyn Langdon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) Theory of Mind Psychological intervention Neuropsychological Tests behavioral disciplines and activities 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) Executive Function 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Theory of mind Task Performance and Analysis Humans Cognitive Dysfunction 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Biological Psychiatry 05 social sciences Confounding Middle Aged Psychiatry and Mental health Case-Control Studies Schizophrenia Female Schizophrenic Psychology Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Executive dysfunction Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychiatry Research. 256:342-344 |
| ISSN: | 0165-1781 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.06.064 |
| Popis: | Theory of mind (TOM) impairments associate significantly with executive deficits in schizophrenia, consistent with the proposal that executive abilities can limit TOM task performance, and confounding identification of those patients who would benefit most from targeted mentalising interventions. 50 schizophrenia patients and 30 healthy controls completed an executive battery and four TOM tasks that were alike with regards generating overt measures of causal false-belief reasoning, but differed with regards using indirect (vs. more direct) instructions. Only the TOM tasks that used indirect instructions to elicit spontaneous false-belief inferences revealed impairment, independent of executive dysfunction, in the schizophrenia patients. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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