Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Brain mechanisms
- Development
- Thinking
- 13 Editor's introduction: Upward toward phenomenology, downward toward physiology
- 14 The psychometric assessment of schizophrenia proneness
- Comments on Jean P. Chapman and Loren J. Chapman's chapter
- 15 Politeness in schizophrenia
- Comments on Roger Brown's chapter
- 16 Neuroleptic treatment effects in relation to psychotherapy, social skills training, and social withdrawal in schizophrenics
- Comments on Herbert E. Spohn's chapter
- 17 Familial factors in the impairment of attention in schizophrenia: Data from Ireland, Israel, and the District of Columbia
- 18 Parsing cognitive processes: Psychopathological and neurophysiological constraints
- 19 Cognitive psychopathology in schizophrenia: Explorations in language, memory, associations, and movements
- Genetics
- Response and reflections
- Author index
- Subject index
19 - Cognitive psychopathology in schizophrenia: Explorations in language, memory, associations, and movements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Brain mechanisms
- Development
- Thinking
- 13 Editor's introduction: Upward toward phenomenology, downward toward physiology
- 14 The psychometric assessment of schizophrenia proneness
- Comments on Jean P. Chapman and Loren J. Chapman's chapter
- 15 Politeness in schizophrenia
- Comments on Roger Brown's chapter
- 16 Neuroleptic treatment effects in relation to psychotherapy, social skills training, and social withdrawal in schizophrenics
- Comments on Herbert E. Spohn's chapter
- 17 Familial factors in the impairment of attention in schizophrenia: Data from Ireland, Israel, and the District of Columbia
- 18 Parsing cognitive processes: Psychopathological and neurophysiological constraints
- 19 Cognitive psychopathology in schizophrenia: Explorations in language, memory, associations, and movements
- Genetics
- Response and reflections
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
The central goal of the work that is reported in this chapter has been to arrive at an understanding of the pathology/ies that underlie the manifest cognitive disorders in schizophrenia. A satisfactory understanding – still a great way off – would ultimately encompass an unbroken chain of links from the manifest clinical symptomatology, through a fine-grain account of the functional anomalies of psychological processes such as memory, associational activation, attentional deployment, language plan formation, and so on, to the neuropsychological processes that produce these anomalies, and thence to the physical, biochemical, and genetic events that control the neuropsychology. In this volume, different investigators work at different interfaces in this explanatory sequence. Our work has been primarily at the interface between the manifest clinical phenomena – the symptoms – and the operation of basic psychological processes involved in information processing, i.e., language and thought, and memory.
This work has been done mostly at the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Erich Lindemann Center in Boston, the New Hampshire Hospital in Concord, plus, in recent years, the Psychiatrische Universitatsklinik at Heidelberg. Many people have worked with us, as students and colleagues. In most cases they have collaborated in our own planned research; in others we have collaborated with work primarily developed and managed by distinguished colleagues in other institutions. Before turning to an account of the research, we think it may be helpful to consider first certain important issues of methodology.
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- PsychopathologyThe Evolving Science of Mental Disorder, pp. 433 - 452Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996
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