Metacognition in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: Methods of assessment and associations with neurocognition and function
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Background and Objectives: Research has confirmed that many with schizophrenia experience deficits in metacognitive capacity defined as impairments in the ability to think about thinking, both with regards to their own thinking and the thinking of others.These difficulties are related to, but not reducible to symptoms.One question posed here regards how these deficits are linked to other forms of cognitive deficits, including deficits in neurocognition, and how they and other forms of cognitive deficits are related to the ability to function.As neurocognition is degraded in schizophrenia, does the ability to think about one's own thinking diminish?Do deficits in metacognition affect function in a manner semi-independent of deficits in neurocognition?Methods: To explore these possibilities, this paper reviews recent studies of metacognition as assessed within personal narratives of self and illness spontaneously generated by adults with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.Results: Studies are reviewed which suggest that impairments in verbal memory and executive function may interfere with the ability to form and sustain representation of one's own internal state as well as the internal states of others.Additionally, results are de-
Institutions: Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indiana University
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $1,910
OpenAlex ID: W1987163882