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Metaphor Comprehension in Schizophrenic Patients

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
People with schizophrenia often exhibit difficulties to comprehend figurative expressions, such as irony, proverbs, metaphors and idioms, with a general proneness to neglect the figurative meaning and to accept the more literal one.
Ileana Rossetti, Paolo Brambilla, Paolo Brambilla, Costanza Papagno, Costanza Papagno   +4 more
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Metacognitive function and fragmentation in schizophrenia: Relationship to cognition, self-experience and developing treatments [PDF]

, 2019
Bleuler suggested that fragmentation of thought, emotion and volition were the unifying feature of the disorders he termed schizophrenia. In this paper we review research seeking to measure some of the aspects of fragmentation related to the experience ...
Bonfils, Kelsey, Hasson-Ohayon, Ilanit, Hochheiser, Jesse, Lysaker, John T., Lysaker, Paul H., Minor, Kyle S., Vohs, Jenifer L.   +6 more
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Phosphorylation of transcription factor specificity protein 4 is increased in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of first-episode psychosis.

PLoS ONE, 2015
BackgroundAltered expression of transcription factor specificity protein 4 (SP4) has been found in the postmortem brain of patients with psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Raquel Pinacho, Gregory Saia, Montserrat Fusté, Iria Meléndez-Pérez, Victoria Villalta-Gil, Josep Maria Haro, Grace Gill, Belén Ramos   +7 more
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Early Substance Use Cessation Improves Cognition—10 Years Outcome in First-Episode Psychosis Patients

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
Background: Cognitive impairment may be a risk factor for, as well as a consequence of, psychosis. Non-remitting symptoms, premorbid functioning, level of education, and socioeconomic background are known correlates.
Melissa A. Weibell, Melissa A. Weibell, Jan Olav Johannessen, Jan Olav Johannessen, Bjørn Auestad, Bjørn Auestad, Jørgen Bramness, Jørgen Bramness, Kolbjørn Brønnick, Ulrik Haahr, Inge Joa, Inge Joa, Tor Ketil Larsen, Tor Ketil Larsen, Ingrid Melle, Ingrid Melle, Stein Opjordsmoen, Stein Opjordsmoen, Bjørn Rishovd Rund, Bjørn Rishovd Rund, Jan Ivar Røssberg, Jan Ivar Røssberg, Erik Simonsen, Erik Simonsen, Per Vaglum, Helen Stain, Svein Friis, Svein Friis, Wenche ten Velden Hegelstad   +28 more
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Association between a longer duration of illness, age and lower frontal lobe grey matter volume in schizophrenia [PDF]

, 2008
The frontal lobe has an extended maturation period and may be vulnerable to the long-term effects of schizophrenia. We tested this hypothesis by studying the relationship between duration of illness (DoI), grey matter (GM) and cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF ...
Abe, Alexander, Ananth, Andreasen, Andrew Simmons, Antonova, Ashburner, Ashburner, Baare, Bachmann, Bartzokis, Bartzokis, Burgess, Callicott, Chein, Chen, Chen, Cornblatt, Cuesta, Desmond, Dominic Fannon, Elizabeth Kuipers, Ettinger, Fannon, Fannon, First, First, Gold, Goldman-Rakic, Goldman-Rakic, Gur, Heaton, Hietala, Kay, Kukolja, Lopez-Garcia, Madden, Mathalon, Matthews, Michael A. Cooke, Milner, Molina, Molina, Molina, Northcutt, Pfefferbaum, Picard, Preethi Premkumar, Premkumar, Premkumar, Sapara, Scully, Seidman, Selemon, Shapiro, Shenton, Sim, Steen, Stroop, Sullivan, Sumich, van Haren, Veena Kumari, Velakoulis, Walter, Wassink, Wechesler, Wechsler   +67 more
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Metacognition in schizophrenia disorders: Comparisons with community controls and bipolar disorder: Replication with a Spanish language Chilean sample [PDF]

, 2018
Metacognition refers to the activities which allow for the availability of a sense of oneself and others in the moment. Research mostly in North America with English-speaking samples has suggested that metacognitive deficits are present in schizophrenia ...
Armijo, Ivan, Ballerini, Massimo, Gagen, Emily C., Irarrázaval, Leonor, Lysaker, Paul H., Mancini, Milena, Stanghellini, Giovanni   +6 more
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y-QUIT: Smoking Prevalence, Engagement, and Effectiveness of an Individualized Smoking Cessation Intervention in Youth With Severe Mental Illness

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018
Introduction: Young people with psychosis are six times more likely to be tobacco smokers than their gender- and age-matched peers. Smoking is a major contributor to the 15-year reduced life expectancy among people experiencing severe mental illness (SMI)
Jackie Curtis, Jackie Curtis, Charry Zhang, Bernadette McGuigan, Esther Pavel-Wood, Rachel Morell, Philip B. Ward, Andrew Watkins, Andrew Watkins, Julia Lappin, Julia Lappin   +10 more
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The Paradoxical Effect of Cannabis Use on Cognition in Chronic Psychotic Disorders

Pathophysiology
Background/Objectives: Cannabis use has a particularly high prevalence in individuals with psychotic disorders. Although cannabis use is generally associated with cognitive impairments in the general population, its impact on cognition in psychosis ...
Fiorela Gorea, Martina Pelle, Federico Fiori Nastro, Carmine Gelormini, Fatime Elezi, Michele Ribolsi, Giorgio Di Lorenzo   +6 more
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The many roads to psychosis: recent advances in understanding risk and mechanisms. [PDF]

, 2018
Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental illness which frequently leads to substantial lifelong disability. The past five years have seen major progress in our understanding of the complex genetic architecture of this disorder.
Bearden, Carrie E, Forsyth, Jennifer K
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Relationship between substance abuse and first-episode psychosis - a South African perspective

South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2003
Background. Co-morbidity between substance abuse and psy- chotic disorders is high. Few studies have examined therelationship between first-episode psychosis and substance abuse.
Sandra Brink, Piet Oosthuizen, Robin Emsley, Irene Mbanga, Natasha Keyter   +4 more
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