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Published on: April 23, 2014
[Schizophrenia, executive control and memory]
S-N Elissalde1, P Mazzola-Pomietto, N Viglianese
1Pôle universitaire de psychiatrie, hôpital Sainte-Marguerite, 270, boulevard Sainte-Marguerite, 13274 Marseille cedex 09, France. sara-nora.elissalde@ap-hm.fr
Abstract:
Schizophrenia affects 1% of the general population. In addition to disabling clinical symptoms, cognitive deficits have also been updated. It has further been proposed that the well-known diversity of schizophrenia in terms of functional outcome and recovery from acute episode is best characterized by cognitive deficits, but not by its classical symptoms. DSM-V acknowledges the importance of cognition in schizophrenia, and could recommend a formal neuropsychological assessment in individuals with psychosis. Schizophrenic patient's cognitive functioning has been studied extensively in the domain of memory and executive control. To date, the studies highlight important deficits in both of these domains. However, within the memory systems, some of them remain unaffected. Altogether, the data invalidate the hypothesis of a global damage and are in favor of specific cognitive deficits. The observed deficits would depend on the dominant symptoms and pre-morbid functioning. The interest of these results was to give impulse to the development of comprehensive assessment battery designed to evaluate the cognitive profiles of each patient and develop a personalized program of cognitive remediation.
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