title: Common and specific cognitive deficits in schizophrenia: relationships to function.
abstract: The goals of the present study were to assess the interrelationships among tasks from the MATRICS and CNTRACS batteries, to determine the degree to which tasks from each battery capture unique variance in cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia, and to determine the ability of tasks from each battery to predict functional outcome. Subjects were 104 schizophrenia patients and 132 healthy control subjects recruited as part of the CNTRACS initiative. All subjects completed four CNTRACS tasks and two tasks from the MATRICS battery: Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia Symbol Coding and the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test. Functional outcome was also assessed in the schizophrenia subjects. In both the patient and control groups, we found significant intercorrelations between all higher order cognitive tasks (episodic memory, goal maintenance, processing speed, verbal learning) but minimal relationships with the visual task. For almost all tasks, scores were significantly related to measures of functional outcome, with higher associations between CNTRACS tasks and performance-based measures of function and between one of the MATRICS tasks and self-reported functioning, relative to the other functioning measures. After regressing out variance shared by other tasks, we continued to observe group differences in performance among task residuals, particularly for measures of episodic memory from both batteries, although these residuals did not correlate as robustly with functional outcome as raw test scores. These findings suggest that there exists both shared and specific variance across cognitive tasks related to cognitive and functional impairments in schizophrenia and that measures derived from cognitive neuroscience can predict functional capacity and status in schizophrenia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, 1 Brookings Dr., St Louis, MO, 63130, USA, Julia.sheffield@wustl.edu.
authors.forename: Julia M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sheffield
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gold
authors.forename: Milton E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Strauss
authors.forename: Cameron S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.forename: Angus W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: MacDonald
authors.forename: J Daniel
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Ragland
authors.forename: Steven M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Silverstein
authors.forename: Deanna M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Barch
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003071:Cognition; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014796:Visual Perception
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