The relationships between insight, psychopathological symptoms, and neurocognitive function in psychotic disorders.

Many psychotic patients fail to admit they are mentally ill. The current study evaluated the associations between insight, specific symptoms, and neurocognitive impairments. Thirty-three acute inpatients with a schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or psychotic disorder NOS diagnosis were rated on the SAIE, Birchwood's IS, and the BPRS. Neurocognitive assessments of attention and frontal lobe functioning were also conducted. Stepwise multiple regression analyses found composites representing delusions, disorganization, and anxiety/depression, as well as CPT-IP shapes hit rate, served as significant predictors of total insight or the specific insight dimensions. At least for acute patients, symptoms tended to have stronger relationships with and were more regularly predictive of insight than neurocognitive measures, though the attentional task associated with right hemisphere functioning, contributed significantly.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2001

Author dc:creator

• Gonterman, Andrea R.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Neumann, Craig S.
• Sewell, Kenneth W.
• Rogers, Richard, 1950-

• Mentally ill.
• Insight.
• Psychoses.
• Schizophrenia.
• Cognitive neuroscience.
• psychotic patients
• insight
• psychosis
• symptoms
• neurocognition

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Gonterman, Andrea R.
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 50444314
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3054/
ark: ark:/67531/metadc3054

OAI identifier oai:identifier

info:ark/67531/metadc3054