How similar are fluid cognition and general intelligence? A developmental neuroscience perspective on fluid cognition as an aspect of human cognitive ability

C Blair - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2006 - cambridge.org
This target article considers the relation of fluid cognitive functioning to general intelligence.
A neurobiological model differentiating working memory/executive function cognitive …

Schizophrenia as a disorder of developmentally reduced synaptic connectivity

TH McGlashan, RE Hoffman - Archives of general psychiatry, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
Recent postmortem and neuroimaging studies of schizophrenia delineate changes in brain
structure and volume that appear to arise from a reduction of neuritic processes (such as …

Static and dynamic cognitive deficits in childhood preceding adult schizophrenia: a 30-year study

A Reichenberg, A Caspi, HL Harrington… - American Journal of …, 2010 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective Premorbid cognitive deficits in schizophrenia are well documented and have been
interpreted as supporting a neurodevelopmental etiological model. The authors investigated …

Psychiatric disorders and intellectual functioning throughout development in velocardiofacial (22q11. 2 deletion) syndrome

T Green, D Gothelf, B Glaser, M Debbane… - Journal of the American …, 2009 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS) is associated with cognitive deficits and
high rates of schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders. We report the data from …

Elaboration on premorbid intellectual performance in schizophrenia: premorbid intellectual decline and risk for schizophrenia

A Reichenberg, M Weiser, MA Rapp… - Archives of General …, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
Context Consistent evidence indicates that some, but not most, patients with schizophrenia
have below-average intelligence years before they manifest psychosis. However, it is not …

Should cognitive deficit be a diagnostic criterion for schizophrenia?

R Lewis - Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 2004 - jpn.ca
This review examines the question of whether cognitive deficits in schizophrenia are
sufficiently reliable, stable and specific to warrant inclusion in the diagnostic criteria for …

Factor analytic support for social cognition as a separable cognitive domain in schizophrenia

DN Allen, GP Strauss, B Donohue… - Schizophrenia research, 2007 - Elsevier
Social cognition has received increasing attention in schizophrenia due to its theoretical
relevance to core features of the disorder as well as the marked deficits in social functioning …

Comparison of progressive cortical gray matter loss in childhood-onsetschizophrenia with that in childhood-onset atypical psychoses

N Gogtay, A Sporn, LS Clasen, TF Nugent… - Archives of general …, 2004 - jamanetwork.com
Background Recent anatomical brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies show a
striking postpsychotic progressive loss of cortical gray matter (GM) in patients with childhood …

Cognitive heterogeneity in first-episode schizophrenia

EM Joyce, SB Hutton, SH Mutsatsa… - The British Journal of …, 2005 - cambridge.org
BackgroundStudies of chronic schizophrenia suggest that there are subgroups with different
profiles of cognitive impairment. AimsTo determine whether such heterogeneity is present at …

Cognitive function in early onset schizophrenia: a selective review

S Frangou - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2010 - frontiersin.org
Schizophrenia is widely regarded as the clinical outcome of aberrant neurodevelopment
caused by a combination of genetic and non-genetic factors. Early Onset Schizophrenia …