Objective It has been well established that schizophrenic patients have neurocognitive
deficits, but it is not known how these deficits influence the daily lives of patients. The goal of …

There has been a surge of interest in the functional consequences of neurocognitive deficits
in schizophrenia. The published literature in this area has doubled in the last few years. In …

The authors present a unified account of 2 neural systems concerned with the development
and expression of adaptive behaviors: a mesencephalic dopamine system for reinforcement …

After more than 100 years of research, the neuropathology of schizophrenia remains
unknown and this is despite the fact that both: Kraepelin, E., 1919/1971. Dementia praecox …

Connectionist models are used to explore the relationship between cognitive deficits and
biological abnormalities in schizophrenia. Schizophrenic deficits in tasks that tap attention …

Background: Medication and chronicity have complicated past attempts to characterize the
neuropsychological performance of patients with schizophrenia. There have been …

• Unmedicated schizophrenic patients (according toDSM-III-Rcriteria)(n= 36) and age-
matched normal controls (n= 36), balanced for parental socioeconomic status, were …

Cognitive functioning is moderately to severely impaired in patients with schizophrenia. This
impairment is the prime driver of the significant disabilities in occupational, social, and …

OBJECTIVE: Neuropsychological impairments are well documented in schizophrenia and
are important targets of treatment. Information about the severity and pattern of deficits after …

Background: Impaired Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) performance has been one
critical piece of evidence suggesting frontal lobe dysfunction in schizophrenia. However, the …