title: Chronic persecutory delusion and autobiographical memories in patients with schizophrenia: a diary study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  While chronic persecutory delusions are typically anchored into patients' everyday life situations, no investigation has ever looked at how situations associated with a feeling of persecution are recorded and later retrieved.
  
  
  METHODS
  a diary methodology combined with a recognition task involving ten patients with schizophrenia who presented chronic persecutory delusions and ten control participants. Diaries of everyday persecutory events (Pe) and non-persecutory events (nPe) were kept.
  
  
  RESULTS
  in both groups, 1) Pe were associated with higher anxiety scores than nPe, 2) Pe were experienced as less distinctive and more stereotyped than nPe, 3) the frequency of incorrect recognition of altered descriptions of Pe was higher than that of nPe.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  because high levels of motivation are required of the diarists, our sample size was small.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Memories of persecutory events were highly emotional and semanticized. they were frequently incorrectly recognized, suggesting the existence of bias resulting from interactions between their processing and persecutory delusions.
authors.affiliation: Hopitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Clinique Psychiatrique, Hôpital Civil, Strasbourg, France Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France INSERM U666, Physiopathologie et Psychopathologie Cognitive de la Schizophrénie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Fabrice
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Berna
authors.affiliation: INSERM U992, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA Neurospin, Gif sur Yvette, France.
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Huron
authors.affiliation: Service Hospitalo-Universitaire, Hôpital Sainte-Anne, Paris, France INSERM, Laboratoire de Physiopathologie des Maladies Psychiatriques, Centre de Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Mathilde
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kazès
authors.affiliation: Hopitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Clinique Psychiatrique, Hôpital Civil, Strasbourg, France INSERM U666, Physiopathologie et Psychopathologie Cognitive de la Schizophrénie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Offerlin-Meyer
authors.affiliation: Service Hospitalo-Universitaire, Hôpital Sainte-Anne, Paris, France INSERM, Laboratoire de Physiopathologie des Maladies Psychiatriques, Centre de Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Willard
authors.affiliation: Hopitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Clinique Psychiatrique, Hôpital Civil, Strasbourg, France Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France INSERM U666, Physiopathologie et Psychopathologie Cognitive de la Schizophrénie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Paulina
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Verry
authors.affiliation: INRS, Epidémiologie en Entreprise, Vandoeuvre, France.
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hedélin
authors.affiliation: Service Hospitalo-Universitaire, Hôpital Sainte-Anne, Paris, France INSERM, Laboratoire de Physiopathologie des Maladies Psychiatriques, Centre de Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Marie-Odile
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Krebs
authors.affiliation: Hopitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Clinique Psychiatrique, Hôpital Civil, Strasbourg, France Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France INSERM U666, Physiopathologie et Psychopathologie Cognitive de la Schizophrénie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Jean-Marie
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Danion
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003702:Delusions / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D008875:Middle Aged; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000503:physiopathology*