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1. Conditional Reasoning in Schizophrenic Patients

Author

Charles Kornreich, Dyna Delle-Vigne, Damien Brevers, Juan Tecco, Salvatore Campanella, Xavier Noël, Paul Verbanck, and Elsa Ermer

Subjects
Psychology, BF1-990
Abstract

Conditional reasoning (if p then q) is used very frequently in everyday situations. Conditional reasoning is impaired in brain-lesion patients, psychopathy, alcoholism, and polydrug dependence. Many neurocognitive deficits have also been described in schizophrenia. We assessed conditional reasoning in 25 patients with schizophrenia, 25 depressive patients, and 25 controls, using the Wason selection task in three different domains: social contracts, precautionary rules, and descriptive rules. Control measures included depression, anxiety, and severity of schizophrenia measures as a Verbal Intelligence Scale. Patients with schizophrenia were significantly impaired on all conditional reasoning tasks compared to depressives and controls. However, the social contract and precautions tasks yielded better results than the descriptive tasks. Differences between groups disappeared for social contract but remained for precautions and descriptive tasks when verbal intelligence was used as a covariate. These results suggest that domain-specific reasoning mechanisms, proposed by evolutionary psychologists, are relatively resilient in the face of brain network disruptions that impair more general reasoning abilities. Nevertheless, patients with schizophrenia could encounter difficulties understanding precaution rules and social contracts in real-life situations resulting in unwise risk-taking and misunderstandings in the social world.

Published
2017
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2. Teenage pregnancy in Belgium: protective factors in a migrant population

Author

Lotta, Coenen, Pauline, Bellekens, Caroline, Kadji, Andrew, Carlin, and Juan, Tecco

Subjects
Transients and Migrants, Adolescent, Belgium, Pregnancy, Pregnancy in Adolescence, Infant, Newborn, Humans, Infant, Female, Protective Factors, Child, Retrospective Studies
Abstract

Teenage pregnancies occur frequently in developing countries and are associated with social issues, including poverty, lower levels of health and educational attainment. Although frequent in European countries in the 20th century today, teenage pregnancies account for only 4% of first children. These pregnancies are usually unplanned and they are considered a vulnerability factor during the pregnancy and the postnatal period, both for the mother and the child. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the evolution of mothers and children of teenage pregnancies, several years after childbirth and to identify factors which may protect or increase the patient's vulnerability.We conducted a retrospective search in our patient database in order to identify all teenage pregnancies between 2010-2014 at CHU Brugmann Hospital. Outcome date data were obtained from the medical files. Mothers were contacted by phone and asked to complete our questionnaire which focused on maternal and paediatric care; and infant and child development after hospitalization.Out of the 342 patients identified, 84 patients were contactable and only 72 patients completed the full questionnaire. With only 4 patients originating from Belgium, our population was largely immigrant. Despite this, obstetrical, maternal and paediatric outcomes were remarkably favorable when compared to other published studies.Our study suggests that some migrant teenage mothers may have a dual advantage in terms of the wealth of a developed country in which have settled and the low social stigma related to their country of origin. More research needs to be done to further investigate this hypothesis.

Published
2019

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