Title |
Apathy is associated with executive functioning in first episode psychosis
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Published in |
BMC Psychiatry, January 2009
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-244x-9-1 |
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Authors |
Ann Faerden, Anja Vaskinn, Arnstein Finset, Ingrid Agartz, Elizabeth Ann Barrett, Svein Friis, Carmen Simonsen, Ole A Andreassen, Ingrid Melle |
Abstract |
The underlying nature of negative symptoms in psychosis is poorly understood. Investigation of the relationship between the different negative subsymptoms and neurocognition is one approach to understand more of the underlying nature. Apathy, one of the subsymptoms, is also a common symptom in other brain disorders. Its association with neurocognition, in particular executive functioning, is well documented in other brain disorders, but only studied in one former study of chronic patients with schizophrenia. This study investigates the association between apathy and neurocognitive functioning in patients with first episode psychosis (FEP), with the hypothesis that apathy is more associated with tests representing executive function than tests representing other neurocognitive domains. |
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