Publications by authors named "Elisa Zugno"
Huntington's disease is a disorder that results in motor, cognitive, and psychiatric problems. The symptoms often take different forms and the presence of disturbances of the psychic sphere reduces patients' autonomy and quality of life, also impacting patients' social life. It is estimated that a prevalence between 33% and 76% of the main psychiatric syndromes may arise in different phases of the disease, often in atypical form, even 20 years before the onset of chorea and dementia.
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- This study looked at how people's thinking skills (cognitive insight) relate to brain activity (cerebral metabolism) in patients with psychosis.
- Researchers tested 63 patients and divided them into two groups based on their insight scores, using special brain imaging techniques.
- They found that patients with low insight had less brain activity in some areas but more in another area compared to those with high insight, which might explain why they struggle with understanding their thoughts.
Neurocognitive and social cognition deficits have been largely reported in Schizophrenia (SKZ) but their association with psychopathology remains uncertain. Our purpose was to explore the relationship between symptom dimensions and neuropsychological performances. We enrolled 35 stabilized schizophrenic outpatients of the Department of Psychiatry of Policlinico Hospital, University of Milan, who completed psychiatric Rating Scales, the Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS) and the Executive and Social Cognition Battery (ESCB).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: A number of studies showed cognitive impairment in bipolar patients but few researches have studied the impact of mood episodes or duration of illness on neuropsychological functioning.
Methods: Cognitive functioning was examined in 110 bipolar 1 outpatients with different mood state (mania, major depression, mixed episode and euthymia). The neuropsychological battery included The Visual Search Test, Trail Making Test, Corsi Test, Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB), Cognitive Estimation Task (CET) and Tower of London and it assessed attention, memory and executive/planning functions.
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- The study looked at how people with bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SKZ) think and act in real-life situations compared to healthy people.
- It involved patients from a hospital in Milan and used special tests to see how well they did in tasks that simulate everyday life.
- The results showed that BD patients did better than SKZ patients, especially in remembering words and solving problems, while both patient groups struggled compared to healthy controls.