[L'Hôpital en Santé mentale Albert-Prévost: stories from the first 100 years].

Objectives In the context of the 100th anniversary celebrations of the Hôpital en santé mentale Albert-Prévost, the present article retraces the history of this pioneering institution in the provision of psychiatric care in the province of Québec. Methods Multiple psychiatrists and health-care professionals who once worked or are still working at Albert-Prévost were interviewed to record their recollection of how psychiatric care was delivered as knowledge about mental illness progressed and how different defining historical events concerning the administration of this institution unfolded. Private and public archives as well as articles documenting the history of this institution were consulted in order to contextualize the participants' experiences.

Theory of mind and context processing in schizophrenia: the role of cognitive flexibility.

The present study sought to identify whether cognitive flexibility and context processing may impact theory of mind (ToM) ability in schizophrenia. Thirty two patients with schizophrenia and 29 matched healthy participants were tested individually on their ToM ability using a task involving attribution and comprehension of a speaker's ironic intent. This task made it possible to determine whether the degree of incongruity between contextual information and a target sentence has an impact on the attribution of ironic intent to the protagonists of a story.

Do patients with schizophrenia attribute mental states in a referential communication task?

Introduction: Many studies have reported that individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) may have impaired social cognition, resulting in communication disorders and theory of mind (ToM) impairments. However, the classical tasks used to assess impaired ToM ability are too complex. The aim of this study was to assess ToM ability using both a classical task and a referential communication task that reproduces a ''natural'' conversation situation.

Effects of cognitive remediation therapies on psychotic symptoms and cognitive complaints in patients with schizophrenia and related disorders: a randomized study.

Background: Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) has proven to be effective in treating cognitive deficits in schizophrenia. The current study aimed to assess the efficacy of CRT on psychotic symptoms and cognitive complaints.

Methods: We contrasted the changes in symptoms and cognitive complaints in patients with schizophrenia and related disorders who received 2 novel CRTs, one targeting mental state attribution, and the other, mental flexibility, compared with a control group given treatment as usual.

[On the front line: survey on shared responsibility. General practitioners and schizophrenia].

Context: General practitioners (GP) play a preponderant role in the treatment of patients suffering of schizophrenia.

Objectives: Discovering the number of patients with schizophrenia who are treated by GPs ; the needs and attitudes of GPs, their knowledge concerning diagnosis, and the treatment they provide.

Methodology: A postal survey was conducted with Quebec GPs who were randomly chosen.

Procedural learning in schizophrenia can reflect the pharmacologic properties of the antipsychotic treatments.

Background: Conventional and atypical antipsychotics have different affinities for D2 receptors, and these receptors are principally located in the striatum. Given that this cerebral structure was previously found to play a major role in procedural learning, the antipsychotic treatment in schizophrenia may be determinant for the procedural learning profile of these patients.

Objective: The current study was aimed at verifying whether procedural learning differs in patients with schizophrenia treated with conventional antipsychotics and patients treated with atypical antipsychotics.