Abstract 'Hyperfocus' is a phenomenon that reflects one's complete absorption in a task, to a
point where a person appears to completely ignore or 'tune out'everything else. Hyperfocus …

Impairments in basic cognitive processes such as attention and working memory are
commonly observed in people with schizophrenia and are predictive of long-term outcome …

Schizophrenia is a life-long debilitating mental disorder affecting tens of millions of people
worldwide. The serendipitous discovery of antipsychotics focused pharmaceutical research …

People with schizophrenia (PSZ) demonstrate reliable reductions in working memory (WM)
capacity (ie, the number of objects that can be held in memory). The present study asked …

Background Heavier tobacco smoking among people with schizophrenia (SCZ) has been
suggested to reflect self-medication of cognitive deficits. The idea that cognitive-enhancing …

ADHD, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are psychiatric diseases with a strong genetic
component which share dopaminergic alterations. Dopamine transporter (DAT) genetics …

Recent evidence suggests that schizophrenia involves hyperfocusing, an unusually narrow
but intense focusing of processing resources. This appears to contradict the classic idea that …

Working memory (WM) refers to the ability to maintain a small number of representations in
an activated, easily accessible state for a short period of time in the service of ongoing …

Previous research suggests that the conscious perception of a masked stimulus is impaired
in schizophrenia, while unconscious bottom-up processing of the same stimulus, as …

Although schizophrenia is classically thought to involve impaired attentional filtering, people
with schizophrenia (PSZ) exhibit a more intense and more exclusive attentional focus than …