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30 lis 2021 · Cognitive symptoms. Doctors identify cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia using neurocognitive tests, which are tests to identify your capabilities across different areas of mental...
Examination of cognitive variables revealed that individuals who later develop schizophrenia showed deficits in verbal and visual knowledge, comprehension and reasoning at age 7, as well as a slowing in the development of processing speed, working memory, and visual–spatial reasoning as they progress through puberty.
Despite the evidence of a larger magnitude of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia as compared to affective psychoses, the literature is very consistent in demonstrating that the profile of cognitive impairment is similar across schizophrenia and affective psychoses.
A theoretical analysis of schizophrenia based on a cognitive model integrates the complex interaction of predisposing neurobiological, environmental, cognitive, and behavioral factors with the diverse symptomatology.
Cognitive remediation for schizophrenia is defined as “an intervention based on behavioral training that intends at mending the cognitive processes (executive functions, attention, memory, social cognition or metacognition) in terms of its durability and making it more generalized”.
Cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia have been found in all cognitive domains, including executive function, memory, and attention, and often develop prior to the other symptoms of schizophrenia. They are highly disabling and predict poor functional outcomes.
1 lut 2020 · Importance: Schizophrenia is a common, severe mental illness that most clinicians will encounter regularly during their practice. This report provides an overview of the clinical characteristics, epidemiology, genetics, neuroscience, and psychopharmacology of schizophrenia to provide a basis to understand the disorder and its treatment.
