The neurocognitive literature on test performance in schizophrenia is reviewed
quantitatively. The authors report 22 mean effect sizes from 204 studies to index …

Despite a hundred years' research, the neuropathology of schizophrenia remains obscure.
However, neither can the null hypothesis be sustained—that it is afunctional'psychosis, a …

Cognitive dysfunction is a well-established feature of schizophrenia, and there is evidence
suggesting that cognitive deficits are secondary to abnormal neurodevelopment leading to …

Although schizophrenia is an illness that has been historically characterized by the
presence of positive symptomatology, decades of research highlight the importance of …

Schizophrenia has historically been considered to be a deteriorating disease, a view
reinforced by recent MRI findings of progressive brain tissue loss over the early years of …

The current diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia proposes that a genetic deficit creates a
predisposing vulnerability in the form of oversenstivity to stress. This model positions all …

Recent postmortem and neuroimaging studies of schizophrenia delineate changes in brain
structure and volume that appear to arise from a reduction of neuritic processes (such as …

Background Although intellectual and neurocognitive deficits accompany schizophrenia,
there are inconsistencies in the literature concerning issues of intellectual decline …

Objective Despite the widespread belief that neuropsychological decline is a cardinal
feature of the progression from the premorbid stage to the chronic form of schizophrenia, few …

OBJECTIVE: Subtle behavioral and intellectual abnormalities are often present in apparently
healthy adolescents who later develop schizophrenia. The authors investigated whether …