Deficits of social-cognitive and social-perceptual aspects of theory of mind in remitted patients with schizophrenia: effect of residual symptoms
| Autor: | Baybars Veznedaroglu, S Gokcen, Bülent Kayahan, Emre Bora |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Adult
Male Psychosis medicine.medical_specialty Hallucinations Intention Neuropsychological Tests behavioral disciplines and activities Delusions Social cognition Theory of mind mental disorders Schizophrenic Psychology medicine Ambulatory Care Humans Interpersonal Relations Psychiatry Personal Construct Theory Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Social perception Wechsler Scales Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Social Behavior Disorders Cognition medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Memory Short-Term Social Perception Schizophrenia Female Psychology Cognition Disorders Social Adjustment |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of nervous and mental disease. 196(2) |
| ISSN: | 1539-736X |
| Popis: | Although ToM deficit in schizophrenia is widely accepted, findings regarding remitted schizophrenia patients are contradictory. Because residual symptoms are present out of psychotic exacerbation periods, the differences between definition of remission may be important to interpret these findings. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between performance of 2 different aspects of theory of mind (ToM) and residual clinical symptoms and other cognitive deficits in schizophrenia. Ninety-one stable outpatients with schizophrenia and 55 healthy controls were assessed with a neuropsychological battery. Both social-cognitive and social-perceptual aspects of ToM were impaired in schizophrenia, even in patients who were totally free of residual symptoms. Still, the results showed that ToM deficit is related to residual symptoms of schizophrenia. Social-cognitive ToM abilities seem to be related to both positive and negative symptoms. The ToM deficits of fully remitted patients without persistent negative symptoms may be secondary to a more general cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia. |
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