Insight in schizophrenia: Involvement of self-reflection networks?

Schizophrenia Bulletin

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1352-1362

  Van Der Meer, Lisette ^a,b   De Vos, Annerieke E ^a,b,c,f   Stiekema, Annemarie P M ^b   Pijnenborg, Gerdina H M ^b,c   Van Tol, Marie José ^a,d   Nolen, Willem A ^a   David, Anthony S ^e   Aleman, André ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Lentis Mental Health Care ^*  (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f Afdeling Psychosecircuit   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive insight; FMRI; Insight; Psychosis; Schizophrenia; Self reflection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; BECK COGNITIVE INSIGHT SCALE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INTROSPECTION; MALE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SCHEDULE OF ASSESSMENT OF INSIGHT EXPANDED; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF EVALUATION; SELF REFLECTION; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; AWARENESS; BRAIN CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITIVE INSIGHT; EQUIPMENT; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOSIS; SELF-REFLECTION;

COGNITIVE INSIGHT; FMRI; INSIGHT; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF-REFLECTION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SELF-ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84882734552     PISSN: 05867614     EISSN: 17451701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbs122     Document Type: Article

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