Insight in schizophrenia: relationship to positive, negative and neurocognitive dimensions.
Impairment of insight is considered as the hallmark of schizophrenia. Substantial proportion of patients with schizophrenia has either poor or absent insight. Insight is a multidimensional and dynamic construct which appears to have intricate links with other symptom dimensions of the psychotic illness. A better appreciation of the association that insight shares with other symptom clusters in psychosis could help us in gaining knowledge about aetiology, prognosis and treatment-related facets of the disorder. This is likely to have critical implications in the understanding and therapeutics of schizophrenia.
Department of Psychiatric Social Work, Schizophrenia Clinic, Translational Psychiatry Laboratory, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Boban
B
Joseph
Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Janardhanan C
JC
Narayanaswamy
Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Ganesan
G
Venkatasubramanian
Insight; negative symptoms; neurocognition; positive symptoms; schizophrenia