Postdiction in Visual Awareness in Schizophrenia

The mistiming of predictive thought and real perception leads to postdiction in awareness. Individuals with high delusive thinking confuse prediction and perception, which results in impaired reality testing. The present observational study investigated how antipsychotic medications and cognitive-be...

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Bibliográfiai részletek
Szerző: Kéri Szabolcs
Dokumentumtípus: Cikk
Megjelent: 2022
Sorozat:BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: OPEN ACCESS PSYCHOLOGY & COGNITION JOURNAL 12 No. 6
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doi:10.3390/bs12060198

mtmt:32901906
Online Access:http://publicatio.bibl.u-szeged.hu/24710
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Tartalmi kivonat:The mistiming of predictive thought and real perception leads to postdiction in awareness. Individuals with high delusive thinking confuse prediction and perception, which results in impaired reality testing. The present observational study investigated how antipsychotic medications and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) modulate postdiction in schizophrenia. We hypothesized that treatment reduces postdiction, especially when antipsychotics and CBT are combined.We enrolled patients with schizophrenia treated in a natural clinical setting and not in a randomized controlled trial. We followed up two schizophrenia groups matched for age, sex, education, and illness duration: patients on antipsychotics (n = 25) or antipsychotics plus CBT (n = 25). The treating clinician assigned the patients to the two groups. Participants completed a postdiction and a temporal discrimination task at weeks 0 and 12.At week 0, postdiction was enhanced in patients relative to controls at a short prediction-perception time interval, which correlated with PANSS positive symptoms and delusional conviction. At week 12, postdiction was reduced in schizophrenia, especially when they received antipsychotics plus CBT. Patients with schizophrenia were also impaired on the temporal discrimination task, which did not change during the treatment. During the 12-week observational period, all PANSS scores were significantly reduced in both clinical groups, but the positive symptoms and emotional distress exhibited a more pronounced response in the antipsychotics plus CBT group.Perceptual postdiction is a putative neurocognitive marker of delusive thinking. Combined treatment with antipsychotics and CBT significantly ameliorates abnormally elevated postdiction in schizophrenia.
Terjedelem/Fizikai jellemzők:Terjedelem: 15 p.-Azonosító: 198
ISSN:2076-328X