Cognitive dysfunction is increasingly recognized as a symptom in mental conditions
including schizophrenia, major depressive disorder (MDD), and bipolar disorder (BPD) …

Formal thought disorder (FTD) is a core syndrome of schizophrenia. However, patients with
other diagnoses, such as mania and depression amongst others, also present with FTD. We …

Many adults who experience severe mental illness also suffer from deficits in metacognition-
put simply, thinking about one's own thought processes-limiting their abilities to recognize …

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the pragmatic abilities of patients with
schizophrenia in a variety of pragmatic phenomena expressed through different …

Patients with schizophrenia usually show an impairment in their communicative-pragmatic
performance; they also have difficulties in cognitive functioning and Theory of Mind (ToM). In …

This article discusses the important advances in a recent field of science dealing with the
brain processes implicated in understanding social situations and interacting with others …

Schizophrenia is characterized by the impairment of several facets of social cognition. This
has been demonstrated in numerous studies that focused on specific aspects of social …

The correlation of formal thought disorder (FTD) symptoms and subsyndromes with
neuropsychological dimensions is as yet unclear. Evidence for a dysexecutive syndrome …

This paper aims to verify the efficacy of Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment (CPT), a new
remediation training for the improvement of the communicative-pragmatic abilities, in …

An impairment in pragmatic communication is a core feature of schizophrenia, often
associated with difficulties in social interactions. The pragmatic deficits regard various …