Insight in schizophrenia: From conceptualization to neuroscience

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 167-179

  Ouzir, Mounir ^a   Azorin, Jean Michel ^c   Adida, Marc ^c   Boussaoud, Driss ^b   Battas, Omar ^a  

^a CHU Ibn Rochd   (Morocco)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c HÔPITAL SAINTE MARGUERITE   (France)

Author keywords

cognition impairment; conceptualization; insight; neuroanatomy; schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE DEFECT; DECISION MAKING; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONALITY; HALLUCINATION; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARANOIA; PILOT STUDY; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHODYNAMICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF REPORT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SKILL; STIGMA; SUICIDE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL MEMORY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSCIENCES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SUICIDE;

EID: 84859057877     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2012.02325.x     Document Type: Review

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