Bibliographic session by Dr. Óscar Martín: Characterization of different cognitive groups in schizophrenia. Cognitive deficits are essential in characterising schizophrenia spectrum disorders. However, at present there is no pharmacological or other treatment available that effectively treats these symptoms. Multiple studies have attempted to categorize distinct subgroups that perform similarly on cognitive tests. The definition and…
Today, Professor Molina also briefly presented the preliminary analyses on the relationship between abnormal experiences of the Self and the anatomical data of those brain regions normally most involved in its generation. We found a high positive correlation coefficien between the thinning of the cortex in the caudal cingulate region and the intensity of those…
RESEARCH FINDINGS: ABNORMAL “SELF” PERCEPTIONS RELATED TO THE STATE OF BRAIN HIPERACTIVATION IN SCHIZOPHRENIA. In today’s session, our colleague Dr. Marta Hernández from the Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid, presented her new research results on personal abnormal perceptions or “self” in patients with schizophrenia. These anomalous perceptions are alterations in the understanding of or relationship…
In line with our last session, today we made a review of the state of the scientific literature about identifying cognitive subgroups in the psychosis. The important heterogeneity given in the cognitive alterations in psychosis leads to the use of a more suitable approach: data-driven analyisis, instead of the classic predetermined methods used (i.e. diagnose)….
Today we have presented the preliminary results corresponding to the search for groups with biological significance, in our sample of patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, based on their cognitive performance. We have included in this study 183 patients, 158 of them with schizophrenia and 25 with bipolar disorder, and 116 healthy controls. First, we…
