Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Habitual prospective memory in schizophrenia.

Brita Elvevåg1, Elizabeth A Maylor, Abigail L Gilbert

  • 1Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, NIMH/NIH, Bldg, 10, Rm, 4S235, MSC 1379, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. elvevaab@intra.nimh.nih.gov

BMC Psychiatry
|August 2, 2003
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

The challenges of implementing hybrid baselines for the interpretation of longitudinal behavioral data from individuals.

NPJ digital medicine·2026
Same author

Rethinking language, cognition and assessment in psychosis: How bilingualism challenges psychiatry and how natural language processing can help.

Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany)·2026
Same author

Speech pause and speech rate for evaluating Alzheimer's and mild cognitive impairment: A meta-analysis.

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS·2025
Same author

Navigating the tradeoff between personal privacy and data utility in speech anonymization for clinical research.

NPJ digital medicine·2025
Same author

Moving beyond word error rate to evaluate automatic speech recognition in clinical samples: Lessons from research into schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.

Psychiatry research·2025
Same author

A voice for the voiceless: A global mental health perspective of the impact of the USAID freeze.

Psychiatry research·2025
Same journal

Correction: Hopefulness among individuals living with schizophrenia and their caregivers in Tanzania: an actor-partner interdependence model.

BMC psychiatry·2026
Same journal

dDual-target rTMS treatment for adolescent depression with headache: a case report.

BMC psychiatry·2026
Same journal

Whose suffering counts? Research funding, scientific freedom, and the epistemic erasure of sexual and gender diverse children.

BMC psychiatry·2026
Same journal

Association between gastrointestinal diseases and depression severity among middle-aged and older Chinese women: the mediating effect of sleep duration.

BMC psychiatry·2026
Same journal

Depression and anxiety symptom severity correlates with subjective fatigue characteristics in individuals with anxiety and mood disorders.

BMC psychiatry·2026
Same journal

Developing a core competency framework for community-based psychiatric rehabilitation practitioners in China: a modified Delphi study.

BMC psychiatry·2026
See all related articles

Patients with schizophrenia struggle to differentiate between intending to perform an action and actually performing it. This prospective memory deficit impacts their ability to accurately recall task completion, particularly in habitual activities.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry

Background:

  • Prospective memory (PM) involves remembering future actions without prompts.
  • It is crucial for distinguishing intentions from actions, especially in habitual tasks.
  • PM difficulties can indicate problems with internal source monitoring.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess habitual prospective memory in schizophrenia patients.
  • To investigate source monitoring and temporal discrimination deficits in this population.

Main Methods:

  • A laboratory analogue of a habitual PM task was used.
  • Participants navigated an obstacle course while performing a PM task (turning a counter).
  • Recall of PM task completion was assessed after each trial.

Related Experiment Videos

Main Results:

  • Schizophrenia patients disproportionately reported PM success after omission errors (forgetting).
  • No group differences were found in reporting forgetting when a PM action was made.
  • Patients showed a specific deficit in distinguishing internally generated sources.

Conclusions:

  • Patients with schizophrenia exhibit a specific deficit in source monitoring or temporal discrimination.
  • This impairment affects their ability to accurately recall prospective memory task performance.
  • Findings highlight challenges in distinguishing between intention and action in schizophrenia.