Psychopathology
2019
Julie Nordgaard, Marlene Buch Pedersen, Lene Halling Hastrup et al.
The notion of a full psychosis continuum in which psychosis is seen on a continuum with normal experience rests heavily on studies showing that psychotic symptoms are common in the general population. However, the methods of assessment in the studies have been criticized. (1) to investigate how many from the general population who answered positively on a psychotic-like symptoms questionnaire...
Psychopathology
2019
Angelo Picardi
Recently, there has been renewed interest in Schneider's first-rank symptoms (FRS) of schizophrenia, thanks in part to a meta-analysis of their diagnostic accuracy, which deserves much credit for its methodological rigor. Conceptualising FRS as a diagnostic test whose performance can be measured in terms of sensitivity and specificity involves some issues that require reflection. First, the...
Psychopathology
2019
Paul H Lysaker, Giancarlo Dimaggio, Jay A Hamm et al.
Disturbances in first person experience is a broadly noted feature of schizophrenia, which cannot be reduced to the expression of psychopathology. Yet, though categorically linked with profound suffering, these disturbances are often ignored by most contemporary treatment models. In this paper, we present a model, which suggests that deficits in metacognition and their later resolution...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2019
Ravinder Jerath, Connor Beveridge, Michael A. Jensen
17 citations
Bioelectric oscillations occur throughout the nervous system of nearly all animals, revealed to play an important role in various aspects of cognitive activity such as information processing and feature binding. Modern research into this dynamic and intrinsic bioelectric activity of neural cells continues to raise questions regarding their role in consciousness and cognition. In this...
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
December 1, 2018
Sofie Boldsen
Sensorimotor research is currently challenging the dominant understanding of autism as a deficit in the cognitive ability to 'mindread'. This marks an emerging shift in autism research from a focus on the structure and processes of the mind to a focus on autistic behavior as grounded in the body. Contemporary researchers in sensorimotor differences in autism call for a reconciliation between...
Schizophrenia Research
December 2018
Ingrid Hartveit Svendsen, Merete G Øie, Paul Møller et al.
Basic self-disturbances (BSDs) are considered core features of schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and are present in the prodromal, early psychotic and chronic phases. Considerable levels of BSDs are also present at first treatment in some patients with psychotic disorders outside the schizophrenia spectrum. There is limited knowledge about the stability of self-disturbances over time. To...
Psychiatric Quarterly
December 2018
Pablo López-silva
Delusions of thought insertion involve subjects claiming that external agents of different nature had placed thoughts into their minds/heads. However, despite being regarded as one of the most severe and complex symptoms of psychotic disorders, a number of disagreements surround the description of its most fundamental phenomenology. This work has reviewed classic and current research on thought...
L'Encephale
December 2018
D Pringuey
In his work « Phenomenology of Psychosis » Arthur Tatossian tends to report the basal alteration of patients to a constrained phenomenological reduction and deducts the drive of daily life as a sensitive point of the schizophrenic experience, vulnerability and mark of his destiny. This perspective reveals the challenge of the dynamics of human identity. Going beyond the spatial figure of a...
Schizophrenia Research
December 1, 2018
Minji Bang, Hae-Jeong Park, Chongwon Pae et al.
23 citations
In the tradition of phenomenology, minimal selfdisturbance has been suggested as a manifestation of the core pathogenesis of schizophrenia; however, the underlying neural mechanism remains unclear. Here, in line with the concept of "cognitive dysmetria," we investigated the cerebro-cerebellar default mode network (DMN) connectivity and its association with pre-reflective minimal selfdisturbance...
PLoS One
November 7, 2018
Cassandra Vieten, Helané Wahbeh, B Rael Cahn et al.
124 citations
The science of meditation has grown tremendously in the last two decades. Most studies have focused on evaluating the clinical effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions, neural and other physiological correlates of meditation, and individual cognitive and emotional aspects of meditation. Far less research has been conducted on more challenging domains to measure, such as group and...