Editorial Letter into Spanish
Publication date: December 2015 Source:Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, Volume 2, Issue 4 Author(s): Natalia Ojeda Del Pozo (Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition)
Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition - December 18, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Clinical (but not cognitive) recovery in schizophrenia through the experience of fictional cinema
In this study, we consider the use of film not only as a clinical recovery tool but also as a novel cognitive recovery tool for additional rehabilitation not only for communication and social abilities but also for all of the basic cognitive and social cognition processes. Methods In this randomized clinical trial, 48 patients with schizophrenia were assigned to an experimental or control group. Both of the groups received treatment sessions that included viewing episodes of the television series The Sopranos. Next, the experimental group participated in a structured cognitive training session that featured questions and...
Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition - December 18, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
The search for new biomarkers for cognition in schizophrenia
Publication date: December 2015 Source:Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, Volume 2, Issue 4 Author(s): Rafael Penadés, Clemente García-Rizo, Miquel Bioque, Alexandre González-Rodríguez, Bibiana Cabrera, Gisela Mezquida, Miquel Bernardo The search for biomarkers in cognition has been the focus of a large part of the research on patients suffering from schizophrenia. The scientific literature is heterogeneous, and few studies establishing an integrative model of pathogenesis and therapeutic response are available in this field. In this review, we aimed to summarize three essential aspects correlated wit...
Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition - December 18, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Editorial Letter
Publication date: December 2015 Source:Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, Volume 2, Issue 4 Author(s): Natalia Ojeda del Pozo (Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition)
Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition - December 18, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Altered emotional modulation of associative memory in first episode schizophrenia: An fMRI study
This study provides evidence of altered associative memory and emotional modulation in schizophrenia, resulting from dysfunctions in the cerebral networks underlying memory, emotion, and encoding strategies. Together, our results suggest that all these dysfunctions may be targets for new therapeutic interventions known to improve cognitive deficits in schizophrenia. (Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition)
Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition - December 17, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Predicting employment status and subjective quality of life in patients with schizophrenia
Publication date: March 2016 Source:Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, Volume 3 Author(s): Haruo Fujino, Chika Sumiyoshi, Tomiki Sumiyoshi, Yuka Yasuda, Hidenaga Yamamori, Kazutaka Ohi, Michiko Fujimoto, Ryota Hashimoto, Masatoshi Takeda, Osamu Imura Although impaired social functioning, particularly poor employment status, is a cardinal feature of patients with schizophrenia and leads to decreased quality of life (QOL), few studies have addressed the relationship between these two clinical issues. The aim of this study was to determine whether employment status predicts subjective QOL and to evalua...
Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition - December 8, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Intact unconscious processing of eye contact in schizophrenia
In this study we probed early unconscious mechanisms of gaze processing in schizophrenia using a technique known as continuous flash suppression. Previous research using this technique to render faces with direct and averted gaze initially invisible reveals that direct eye contact gains privileged access to conscious awareness in healthy adults. We found that patients, as with healthy control subjects, showed the same effect: faces with direct eye gaze became visible significantly faster than faces with averted gaze. This suggests that early unconscious processing of eye gaze is intact in schizophrenia and implies that any...
Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition - December 8, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Selective impairment of global motion integration, but not global form detection, in schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder
Publication date: March 2016 Source:Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, Volume 3 Author(s): Daniel Bennett, Amy Dluzniak, Simon J. Cropper, Timea Partos, Suresh Sundram, Olivia Carter Recent evidence suggests that schizophrenia is associated with impaired processing of global visual motion, but intact processing of global visual form. This project assessed whether preserved visual form detection in schizophrenia extended beyond low-level pattern discrimination to a naturalistic form-detection task. We assessed both naturalistic form detection and global motion detection in individuals with schizophrenia spec...
Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition - December 8, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Concepts of ‘self’ in delusion resolution
Publication date: March 2016 Source:Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, Volume 3 Author(s): Julia Longenecker, Christy Hui, Eric Y.H. Chen, Brita Elvevåg (Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition)
Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition - December 5, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Neuroscience-informed auditory training in schizophrenia: A final report of the effects on cognition and serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor
Conclusions Participants with chronic schizophrenia made significant cognitive gains after 50 hours of intensive computerized training delivered as a stand-alone treatment, but no improvement in symptoms or functioning. Serum BDNF levels were significantly increased, and may serve as a peripheral biomarker for the effects of training. Future research must focus on: 1) Methods of integrating cognitive training with psychosocial treatments; 2) A deeper understanding of underlying neurophysiology in order to enhance critical mechanisms of action. (Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition)
Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition - December 5, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Neurocognitive normality in schizophrenia revisited
Publication date: Available online 19 November 2015 Source:Schizophrenia Research: Cognition Author(s): R. Walter Heinrichs, Farena Pinnock, Eva Muharib, Leah Hartman, Joel Goldberg, Stephanie McDermid Vaz The validity and significance of normal range neurocognition in schizophrenia remain unclear and controversial. We assessed whether normal range patients and controls demonstrate evidence of decline relative to premorbid ability and differ in performance profiles across measures, including those external to the normality criterion. In addition, we compared below normal range healthy control participants w...
Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition - November 21, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Increased Internet use and poorer ability to manage emotions in youth at high-risk for psychosis
Publication date: Available online 17 November 2015 Source:Schizophrenia Research: Cognition Author(s): Andrea Pelletier-Baldelli, Lindsay Ives, Vijay A. Mittal The relationship between Internet use and social behavior remains unknown. However, research indicates that Internet use (IU) may have some causal role in certain types of psychopathology and overall functioning. In contrast, other work suggests that IU may be protective and buffer against social isolation. Poorer emotional processing (EP) is characteristic of schizophrenia, and these deficits are present prior to illness onset (the ultra high-risk period...
Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition - November 19, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
The impact of the Val158Met COMT polymorphism on context processing in patients on the schizophrenia spectrum and their relatives
Conclusions Deficits in context processing in schizophrenic patients and their families are influenced by the Val158Met COMT functional polymorphism, likely as a consequence of reduced dopamine availability in the PFC. (Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition)
Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition - November 17, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Temporal processing in schizophrenia: Review
Publication date: Available online 16 November 2015 Source:Schizophrenia Research: Cognition Author(s): Irene Alústiza, Nuria Pujol, Patricio Molero, Felipe Ortuño We review the main contributions of the cognitive neuroscience literature in the field of time processing in schizophrenia. First, we summarize the theoretical concepts and terminology related to time and time estimation and the characterization of this deficit in the illness. Second, we thoroughly review the neuroanatomical basis of this deficit and its interactions with other cognitive processes and clinical symptoms. Third, we specifically highl...
Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition - November 17, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Neurocognition as a predictor of outcome in schizophrenia in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966
Publication date: September 2015 Source:Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, Volume 2, Issue 3 Author(s): P. Juola, J. Miettunen, H. Salo, G.K. Murray, A.O. Ahmed, J. Veijola, M. Isohanni, E. Jääskeläinen The purpose of this study was to study neurocognitive performance as a predictor of outcomes in midlife schizophrenia. There is a lack of studies with unselected samples and a long follow-up. The study is based on the prospective, unselected population-based Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966. The study includes 43 individuals with schizophrenia and 73 controls, whose neurocognitive performance was as...
Source: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition - September 21, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
