INTRODUCTION It has been proposed that theory of mind (ToM) deficits underlying difficulties in taking the perspective of others may substantially contribute to insight impairment in schizophrenia. The present study aimed to explore the effect of ToM deficits on insight impairment independently of co-existent neurocognitive deficits and symptom severity in chronic schizophrenia. METHODS Fifty...

AIM To define regional grey-matter abnormalities in schizophrenia patients with poor insight (Insight(-)), relative to patients with preserved clinical insight (Insight(+)), and healthy controls. METHODS Forty stable schizophrenia outpatients (20 Insight(-) and 20 Insight(+)) and 20 healthy controls underwent whole brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Insight in all patients was assessed u...

OBJECTIVES To examine the relationship between level of insight and various subjective experiences for patients with schizophrenia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy-four patients with schizophrenia who were discharged from our hospital were evaluated. The level of insight into their illness and various subjective experiences were evaluated at discharge. We used the Scale to Assess Unawareness of...

Offenders with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) are widely assumed to reject psychotherapeutic intervention. Some commentators, therefore, argue that those with the disorder are better managed in the criminal justice system, where, following the introduction of indeterminate sentences, engagement with psychological treatment is coercively linked to the achievement of parole. By comparison...

The recognition that cognition is situated is a major advance over the essentially Platonic approach of earlier AI. We are starting to realise that the knowledge we express isn't a poorer expression of deeper (implicitly archetypal) knowledge. Rather knowledge is created for specific single use purposes and the knowledge created is shaped by its purpose in the world and the concerns of its crea...

Outside the cognitive psychologist’s laboratory, problem solving is an activity that takes place in a rich web of interactions involving people and artifacts. Through this interactivity, a reasoner’s comprehension of the problem emerges from a coalition of internal and external resources. In the experiment presented here, interactivity was explored under laboratory conditions. Participants were...

" The mission of the Journal of General Physiology is to publish original work of the highest quality that elucidates basic biological, chemical, or physical mechanisms of broad physiological signifi cance. This expectation — that the articles provide mechanistic insight — has served the Journal well; it also has been cause for much uncertainty , mostly pertaining to what actually constitutes m...

Cognitive science is moving toward a conception of cognition as a biological phenomenon rather than a logical process. In distributed cognition, this shift draws attention to the fine details of interactions between whole persons and their cultural constructed environments for thinking. Recent work in embodied and enacted cognition, suggests new ways to think about fundamental constructs such a...