Charlotte L. Rae

Impairment of perceptual metacognitive accuracy and reduced prefrontal grey matter volume in first-episode psychosis

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry February 27, 2018 Geoff Davies, Charlotte L. Rae, Sarah N. Garfinkel et al. 23 citations

INTRODUCTION: Metacognition, or "thinking about thinking", is a higher-order thought process that allows for the evaluation of perceptual processes for accuracy. Metacognitive accuracy is associated with the grey matter volume (GMV) in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), an area also impacted in schizophrenia. The present study set out to investigate whether deficits in metacognitive accuracy are...