Individuals with disorders that include psychotic symptoms (ie psychotic disorders)
experience broad cognitive impairments in the chronic state, indicating a dimension of …

In the present article the putative role of environmental factors in schizophrenia is reviewed
and synthesized. Accumulating evidence from recent studies suggests that environmental …

Context In focusing on potentially localizable cognitive impairments, the schizophrenia meta-
analytic literature has overlooked the largest single impairment: on digit symbol coding …

Abstract A general psychopathology ('p') factor captures shared variation across mental
disorders. One hypothesis is that poor executive function (EF) contributes to p. Although EF …

Although schizophrenia is an illness that has been historically characterized by the
presence of positive symptomatology, decades of research highlight the importance of …

Objective Premorbid cognitive deficits in schizophrenia are well documented and have been
interpreted as supporting a neurodevelopmental etiological model. The authors investigated …

Until recently, the dominant view was that schizophrenia patients have limited, if any,
neuropsychological impairments, and those that are observed are only secondary to the …

To date, the diagnosis of mental disorders has been based on clinical observation,
specifically: the identification of symptoms that tend to cluster together, the timing of the …

OBJECTIVE: A premorbid IQ deficit supports a developmental dimension to schizophrenia
and its cognitive aspects that are crucial to functional outcome. Better characterisation of the …

Cognitive impairment has emerged as an important new target in schizophrenia
therapeutics in light of evidence that cognitive deficits are critically related to the functional of …