Neurocognitive insight and executive functioning in schizophrenia.

Introduction: This study explored whether integrity of executive functioning is required for good neurocognitive insight (NI) in subjects with schizophrenia.

Methods: NI was measured by subtracting executive difficulties (errors in the Modified Card Sorting Task) from executive cognitive complaints (Subjective Scale to Investigate Cognition in Schizophrenia) in 40 outpatients with schizophrenia and 42 normal controls. The schizophrenia sample was a priori divided into two subgroups on the basis of executive level.

Impact of interpersonal factors on insight in schizophrenia.

Whereas clinical insight in schizophrenia has been consistently associated with personal factors (i.e. sociodemographic characteristics, symptoms or cognition), little is known about its relationships with interpersonal factors (i.

Cognitive insight in schizophrenia: the missing link between insight and neurocognitive complaint?

The aim of this study was to explore the associations between cognitive insight, clinical insight, and neurocognitive complaint in a sample of 54 outpatients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Cognitive insight assessed using the Beck Cognitive Insight Scale (BCIS) was not associated with clinical insight assessed using the Scale to Assess Unawareness of Mental Disorder. Associations were found between the BCIS scores and the neurocognitive complaints assessed using the Subjective Scale to Investigate Cognition in Schizophrenia.