Schizophrenia: A Shared Neurocognitive Process with "Normality"? - Softcover

Al-Rubaiey Kadhim, Lujaien

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3845401265 ISBN 13: 9783845401263

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

In many patients with schizophrenia, delusions persist despite contradictory information, suggesting that this information is not fully integrated. The smaller N400 event-related brain potentials found in delusional patients confirm this suggestion. Indeed, the N400 amplitude is proportional to the amount of efforts spontaneously deployed by the brain to integrate the meaning of unexpected information. Interestingly, healthy subjects (HSs) with delusional-like ideas (DLIs) also seem to display smaller N400s than HSs without DLIs but only when paranoid feelings are enhanced by a particular induction. Accordingly, a spontaneous active state of paranoia could be responsible for the smaller N400s observed in delusional patients and thus, for the maintenance of their delusions by incomplete integration.

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About the Author

Lujaien Al-Rubaiey was awarded an Honours and Specialization degree in Psychology from the University of Western Ontario. With an increasing interest in brain physiology and its influence on psychosis, she persued her studies in Neuroscience at McGill University. She currently works at Tawam Molecular Imaging Centre in the United Arab Emirates.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3845401265
• ISBN 13: 9783845401263
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 88