Citation

El-Hage W, Lafay N, Wassouf I, Jaafari N. Ann. Med. Psychol. (Paris) 2011; 169(7): 462-463.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Societe Medico-Psychologique, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.amp.2011.06.007

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Schizophrenia is usually associated with severe and chronic lack of knowledge of mental illness. This lack of insight is found to be correlated to hypofrontality but not related to the disorder outcome or to the intelligence quotient. The cognitive insight was defined as the difference between self-reflectiveness and self-certainty. This ability is described as decreased in schizophrenia but increased in depression. Thus, schizophrenia with depressive comorbidity is associated with a higher level of insight. The authors discuss how greater awareness of psychotic illness can be lived as traumatic, which appears to be a risk factor for depression and suicide. © 2011 Elsevier Masson SAS.

Language: fr

Keywords

human; suicide; Cognition; Schizophrenia; depression; schizophrenia; comorbidity; risk factor; awareness; article; disease association; Insight; medical information; intelligence quotient; introspection