The Relationship of Clinical, Cognitive and Social Measures in Schizophrenia: A Preliminary Finding Combining Measures in Probands and Relatives

This study examines performance of schizophrenia patients, unaffected relatives and controls in social cognition, cognitive and psychiatric scales looking for possible markers of vulnerability in schizophrenia. Performance of schizophrenia patients from multiplex families, first-degree relatives, an...

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Main Authors: David Huepe, Rodrigo Riveros, Facundo Manes, Blas Couto, Esteban Hurtado, Marcelo Cetkovich, Maria Escobar, Viviana Vergara, Teresa Parrao, Agustin Ibañez
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Published: Wiley 2012-01-01
Series:Behavioural Neurology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-2011-0350
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Facundo Manes
Blas Couto
Esteban Hurtado
Marcelo Cetkovich
Maria Escobar
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description This study examines performance of schizophrenia patients, unaffected relatives and controls in social cognition, cognitive and psychiatric scales looking for possible markers of vulnerability in schizophrenia. Performance of schizophrenia patients from multiplex families, first-degree relatives, and matched controls was compared and, subsequently, discriminant analysis method was used for identifying the best predictors for group membership. By using Multigroup Discriminant Analyses on the three groups, the best predictors were PANSS, Premorbid Adjustment Scale, Faux Pas test, and a face/emotion categorizing task. This model obtained 82% correct global classification, suggesting that the combination of psychiatric scales and neuropsychological/social cognition tesks are the best approach for characterizing this disease. Although preliminary, our results suggest that social cognition tasks are robust markers of schizophrenia family impairments, and that combining clinical, social and neuropsychological measures is the best approach to asses patients and relatives vulnerability.
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spelling doaj-art-c1aec8ea78224b6b963f080fabb10d262025-08-20T03:23:30ZengWileyBehavioural Neurology0953-41801875-85842012-01-0125213715010.3233/BEN-2011-0350The Relationship of Clinical, Cognitive and Social Measures in Schizophrenia: A Preliminary Finding Combining Measures in Probands and RelativesDavid Huepe0Rodrigo Riveros1Facundo Manes2Blas Couto3Esteban Hurtado4Marcelo Cetkovich5Maria Escobar6Viviana Vergara7Teresa Parrao8Agustin Ibañez9Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Sociocognition, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, ChilePontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, ChileLaboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO) and Institute of Neuroscience, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaLaboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO) and Institute of Neuroscience, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaLaboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Sociocognition, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, ChileLaboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO) and Institute of Neuroscience, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaLaboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Sociocognition, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, ChileLaboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Sociocognition, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, ChileLaboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Sociocognition, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, ChileLaboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Sociocognition, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, ChileThis study examines performance of schizophrenia patients, unaffected relatives and controls in social cognition, cognitive and psychiatric scales looking for possible markers of vulnerability in schizophrenia. Performance of schizophrenia patients from multiplex families, first-degree relatives, and matched controls was compared and, subsequently, discriminant analysis method was used for identifying the best predictors for group membership. By using Multigroup Discriminant Analyses on the three groups, the best predictors were PANSS, Premorbid Adjustment Scale, Faux Pas test, and a face/emotion categorizing task. This model obtained 82% correct global classification, suggesting that the combination of psychiatric scales and neuropsychological/social cognition tesks are the best approach for characterizing this disease. Although preliminary, our results suggest that social cognition tasks are robust markers of schizophrenia family impairments, and that combining clinical, social and neuropsychological measures is the best approach to asses patients and relatives vulnerability.http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-2011-0350
spellingShingle David Huepe
Rodrigo Riveros
Facundo Manes
Blas Couto
Esteban Hurtado
Marcelo Cetkovich
Maria Escobar
Viviana Vergara
Teresa Parrao
Agustin Ibañez
The Relationship of Clinical, Cognitive and Social Measures in Schizophrenia: A Preliminary Finding Combining Measures in Probands and Relatives
Behavioural Neurology
title The Relationship of Clinical, Cognitive and Social Measures in Schizophrenia: A Preliminary Finding Combining Measures in Probands and Relatives
title_full The Relationship of Clinical, Cognitive and Social Measures in Schizophrenia: A Preliminary Finding Combining Measures in Probands and Relatives
title_fullStr The Relationship of Clinical, Cognitive and Social Measures in Schizophrenia: A Preliminary Finding Combining Measures in Probands and Relatives
title_full_unstemmed The Relationship of Clinical, Cognitive and Social Measures in Schizophrenia: A Preliminary Finding Combining Measures in Probands and Relatives
title_short The Relationship of Clinical, Cognitive and Social Measures in Schizophrenia: A Preliminary Finding Combining Measures in Probands and Relatives
title_sort relationship of clinical cognitive and social measures in schizophrenia a preliminary finding combining measures in probands and relatives
url http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-2011-0350
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