Exploratory Study of the Association Between Insight and Theory of Mind (Tom) in Stable Schizophrenia Patients

Preoperative assessment enables the early diagnosis and successful treatment of lymphedema

“…In any event, the present study could show that patients with HD have profound deficits in ToM that closely resemble those found in schizophrenia with partial independence of neurocognitive performance. This finding is entirely compatible with observations of selective deficits in insight in patients with HD,33 and lack of awareness of cognitive and motor symptoms,34–36 particularly because it has repetitively been shown in schizophrenia that a lack of insight into the disorder often corresponds with impairments in ToM 37–40. Exploring possible associations between symptom awareness and ToM in HD could be a fruitful approach in future studies.…”

Bridging disparate symptoms of schizophrenia: a triple network dysfunction theory

“…Most studies observed a more prominent ToM deficit in patients with severe negative symptomatology or disorganization of thought and speech (Sarfati et al, 1997; Sarfati and Hardy-Bayle, 1999; Mazza et al, 2001). It was also demonstrated that some reality distortions, especially persecutory delusions, could be related to the ToM deficit (Corcoran et al, 1995; Mazza et al, 2001; Pousa et al, 2008). A current study showed that while negative symptoms are associated with a lack of mentalizing, positive symptoms such as delusions were associated with another type of error, overmentalizing (Montag et al, 2011).…”