title: The relationship between insight and autobiographical memory for emotional events in schizophrenia.
abstract: The relation of episodic and semantic memory for emotional- (positive, negative) and neutral-valenced autobiographical events to illness insight was examined in individuals with schizophrenia. Reduced recall of episodic details for negative events was significantly associated with impaired awareness of having a past mental disorder and its social consequences. Deficits in episodic memory for negative autobiographical events may underlie impaired insight in schizophrenia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Western University, London Health Sciences Centre-Victoria Hospital, 800 Commissioner's Road East, London, ON, Canada N6A 5W9; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, St. Joseph׳s Healthcare Hamilton, West 5th Campus, 100 West 5th, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8N 3K7. Electronic address: arlene.macdougall@lhsc.on.ca.
authors.forename: Arlene G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: MacDougall
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, St. Joseph׳s Healthcare Hamilton, West 5th Campus, 100 West 5th, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8N 3K7; Homewood Research Institute, Homewood Health Centre, 150 Delhi Street, Guelph, ON, Canada N1E 6K9. Electronic address: mmckinno@stjosham.on.ca.
authors.forename: Margaret C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: McKinnon
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, St. Joseph׳s Healthcare Hamilton, West 5th Campus, 100 West 5th, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8N 3K7. Electronic address: kherdman@yorku.ca.
authors.forename: Katherine A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Herdman
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, St. Joseph׳s Healthcare Hamilton, West 5th Campus, 100 West 5th, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8N 3K7. Electronic address: matthew1.king@psych.ryerson.ca.
authors.forename: Matthew J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: King
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, St. Joseph׳s Healthcare Hamilton, West 5th Campus, 100 West 5th, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8N 3K7; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College St., Toronto, ON, Canada M5T 1R8. Electronic address: michael.kiang@camh.ca.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kiang
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011340:Problem Solving; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology
keywords: Autobiographical memory; Insight; Schizophrenia