Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-x5gtn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-14T16:05:45.157Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Chapter 2 - The multi-faceted, “global” cognitive impairment profile in schizophrenia

from Section 1 - Characteristics of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2013

By
Dwight Dickinson ,
Jonathan Schaefer  and
Daniel R. Weinberger
Edited by
Philip D. Harvey
Philip D. Harvey
Affiliation:
University of Miami
Get access

Summary

The chapter begins with some elaboration about the nature of the generalized cognitive impairment in schizophrenia. A number of large meta-analyses have provided clarifying evidence about the breadth of this deficit. Heinrichs and Zakzanis published the first large-scale meta-analysis of cognitive deficit findings in schizophrenia. Articles for the meta-analysis were located through key word searches in PubMed for the period 2006 to 2011. Standard criteria were used to select studies/samples for review: the study must have contrasted cognitive performance in schizophrenia patients and healthy controls; the study must have based schizophrenia diagnoses on contemporary diagnostic criteria; results must have been reported with sufficient detail to allow calculation of effect sizes; finally, the study must have been reported in English. Neuropsychological battery studies make it possible to compare schizophrenia cognitive deficits in different global regions using the same or very similar cognitive tests.
Type
Chapter
Information
Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia
Characteristics, Assessment and Treatment
 , pp. 24 - 49
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2013

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×