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Neurocognition in the Extended Psychosis Phenotype: Performance of a Community Sample of Adolescents With Psychotic Symptoms on the MATRICS Neurocognitive Battery.
- Source :
- Schizophrenia Bulletin; Sep2013, Vol. 39 Issue 5, p1018-1026, 9p, 1 Chart, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Neurocognitive dysfunction is well established in psychosis, but recent work suggests that processing speed deficits might represent a particularly important cognitive deficit. A number of significant confounds, however, such as disease chronicity and antipsychotic medication use, have been shown to affect processing speed, causing debate as to the core cognitive features of psychosis. We adopted a novel strategy of testing neurocognitive performance in the “extended psychosis phenotype,” involving community-based adolescents who are not clinically psychotic but who report psychotic symptoms and who are at increased risk of psychosis in adulthood. This allows investigation of the earliest cognitive factors associated with psychosis risk, while excluding potential confounds such as disease chronicity and antipsychotic use. A population sample of 212 school-going adolescents aged 11–13 years took part in this study. Psychotic symptoms were assessed using the psychosis section of the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia. Neurocognition was assessed using the Measurement and Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia (MATRICS) consensus neurocognitive battery. Adolescents with psychotic symptoms performed significantly more poorly on 3 processing speed tasks: Trail Making Test-A (F = 3.3, P < .05), Trail Making Test-B (F = 3.1, P < .05), and digit symbol coding task (F = 7.0, P < .001)—as well as on a nonverbal working memory (spatial span) task (F = 3.2, P < .05). Our findings support the idea that neurocognitive impairment, and processing speed impairment in particular, is a core feature of psychosis risk. This group likely demonstrates some of the earliest cognitive impairments associated with psychosis vulnerability.Key words: epidemiology/adolescents/cognition [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- PSYCHOSES risk factors
ANALYSIS of covariance
CHI-squared test
COGNITION disorders
INTELLIGENCE tests
INTERVIEWING
LONGITUDINAL method
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL tests
RESEARCH methodology
PROBABILITY theory
PSYCHOLOGICAL tests
PSYCHOSES
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH funding
T-test (Statistics)
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
EFFECT sizes (Statistics)
DATA analysis software
ADOLESCENCE
CHILDREN
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 05867614
- Volume :
- 39
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Schizophrenia Bulletin
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 90069752
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbs086