Social vs. non-social measures of learning potential for predicting community functioning across phase of illness in schizophrenia

Studies demonstrate that dynamic assessment (i.e., learning potential) improves the prediction of response to rehabilitation over static measures in individuals with schizophrenia. Learning potential is most commonly assessed using neuropsychological tests under a test-train-test paradigm to examine change in performance. Novel learning potential approaches using social cognitive tasks may have added value, particularly for the prediction of social functioning, but this area is unexplored. The present study is the first to investigate whether patients with schizophrenia demonstrate social cognitive learning potential across phase of illness.

Source: Schizophrenia Research - August 15, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Peter E. Clayson, Robert S. Kern, Keith H. Nuechterlein, Barbara J. Knowlton, Carrie E. Bearden, Tyrone D. Cannon, Alan P. Fiske, Livon Ghermezi, Jacqueline N. Hayata, Gerhard S. Hellemann, William P. Horan, Kimmy Kee, Junghee Lee, Kenneth L. Subotnik, Ca Source Type: research