Publications by authors named "Lise M' Barek"
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- The study examines how executive functions (EFs), crucial for cognitive control, are affected in schizophrenia, highlighting the role of the frontal lobes.
- It uses an integrative model proposed by Stuss to characterize the varying deficits in EFs among patients with schizophrenia compared to healthy controls.
- Results show that patients exhibit broad deficits across frontal functions, indicating a heterogeneous nature of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia rather than a uniform deficit.
Background: Apathy can be defined as a quantitative reduction of self-generated voluntary and purposeful (or goal-directed) behaviour. The literature underlines the triadic dimensional nature of apathy, but in schizophrenia there are inconsistencies due to difficulty in assessment. The Dimensional Apathy Scale (DAS) and its validation into French (f-DAS) provide measurement of three neurobehavioral apathy subtypes: Executive, Emotional and Initiation, but these subtypes have never been explored in schizophrenia.
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