Cognition, Social Cognition and Functional Disability in Early-Stage Schizophrenia: A Study from Southern India

Over the past 20 years a wealth of evidence has demonstrated cognitive and social cognitive deficits of a 1-2SD in magnitude across a wide variety of cognitive domains in people diagnosed with schizophrenia (e.g., Heinrichs and Zakzanis, 1998; Dickinson et  al., 2007; Schaefer et al, 2013; Savla et al., 2013; McCleery et al.,2014). These deficits are evident at illness onset (Mesholam-Gately et al., 2009), persist into senescence (Irani et al., 2010), and are resistant to the effects of conventional pharmacotherapy for symptoms.

Source: Psychiatry Research - April 23, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Matthew M. Kurtz, Subhashini Gopal, Sujit John, R. Thara Source Type: research