Theory of mind in schizophrenia: The role of clinical symptomatology and neurocognition in understanding other people's thoughts and intentions

Abdel‐Hamid, Mona; Lehmkämper, Caroline; Sonntag, Claudia; Juckel, Georg; Daum, Irene; Brüne, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2007.10.021

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“…Few studies have focused on the direct relationship between AVH and ToM. Although Abdel-Hamid and colleagues 76 demonstrated weaker ToM abilities in schizophrenia patients, they did not establish a significant association between ToM deficits and positive symptoms, such as hallucinations. Delusions may be secondary to abnormal perceptual processes 77 and aberrant attributions of salience.…”

Section: Cognitive Theories Of Hallucinations In Children and Adolescmentioning

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From Phenomenology to Neurophysiological Understanding of Hallucinations in Children and Adolescents

Jardri

Bartels-Velthuis

Debbané

et al. 2014

Schizophrenia Bulletin

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Typically reported as vivid, multisensory experiences which may spontaneously resolve, hallucinations are present at high rates during childhood. The risk of associated psychopathology is a major cause of concern. On the one hand, the risk of developing further delusional ideation has been shown to be reduced by better theory of mind skills. On the other hand, ideas of reference, passivity phenomena, and misidentification syndrome have been shown to increase the risk of self-injury or heteroaggressive behaviors. Cognitive psychology and brain-imaging studies have advanced our knowledge of the mechanisms underlying these early-onset hallucinations. Notably, specific functional impairments have been associated with certain phenomenological characteristics of hallucinations in youths, including intrusiveness and the sense of reality. In this review, we provide an update of associated epidemiological and phenomenological factors (including sociocultural context, social adversity, and genetics, considered in relation to the psychosis continuum hypothesis), cognitive models, and neurophysiological findings concerning hallucinations in children and adolescents. Key issues that have interfered with progress are considered and recommendations for future studies are provided.

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Section: Cognitive Theories Of Hallucinations In Children and Adolescmentioning

confidence: 95%

From Phenomenology to Neurophysiological Understanding of Hallucinations in Children and Adolescents

Jardri

Bartels-Velthuis

Debbané

et al. 2014

Schizophrenia Bulletin

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“…The poor ToM performance was demonstrated to be strongly associated with Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and measured cognitive performance, especially executive abilities (Abdel-Hamid et al, 2009) or working memory load (Brüne, 2003). However, importantly, some studies controlled for cognitive performance and IQ levels showed that the ToM deficit cannot be completely explained by the impairment of cognitive functioning in schizophrenia itself (Brüne, 2003; Bozikas et al, 2011; Montag et al, 2011; Pentaraki et al, 2012).…”

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Bridging disparate symptoms of schizophrenia: a triple network dysfunction theory

Nekovarova

Fajnerová

Horáček³

et al. 2014

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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Schizophrenia is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder with variable symptomatology, traditionally divided into positive and negative symptoms, and cognitive deficits. However, the etiology of this disorder has yet to be fully understood. Recent findings suggest that alteration of the basic sense of self-awareness may be an essential distortion of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. In addition, extensive research of social and mentalizing abilities has stressed the role of distortion of social skills in schizophrenia.This article aims to propose and support a concept of a triple brain network model of the dysfunctional switching between default mode and central executive network (CEN) related to the aberrant activity of the salience network. This model could represent a unitary mechanism of a wide array of symptom domains present in schizophrenia including the deficit of self (self-awareness and self-representation) and theory of mind (ToM) dysfunctions along with the traditional positive, negative and cognitive domains. We review previous studies which document the dysfunctions of self and ToM in schizophrenia together with neuroimaging data that support the triple brain network model as a common neuronal substrate of this dysfunction.

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“…It is well established that poor ability to attribute mental states (e.g., beliefs, emotions, intentions) to oneself and to others (theory of mind, ToM; Frith, 1992) causes unsuccessful social interactions and social functioning (Brüne, 2005), and impaired ToM was frequently shown in schizophrenia (Hirao et al, 2008;Irani et al, 2006;Kelemen et al, 2005;Kington et al, 2000;Lam et al, 2014;Russell, 2000;Scherzer et al, 2012; for meta-analyses see Bora et al, 2009;Chung et al, 2014;Sprong et al, 2007). Several studies showed that impaired ToM skills were associated with the severity of psychotic symptoms (Bora et al, 2009;Guastella et al, 2013; but see Abdel-Hamid et al, 2009;Urbach et al, 2013), especially with delusions and hallucinations (Corcoran et al, 1995;Frith, 1992;Harrington et al, 2005a;Jardri et al, 2014; for a critical review see Harrington et al, 2005b).…”

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Auditory top-down control and affective theory of mind in schizophrenia with and without hallucinations

Rominger

Bleier

Fitz

et al. 2016

Schizophrenia Research

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Theory of mind in schizophrenia: The role of clinical symptomatology and neurocognition in understanding other people's thoughts and intentions

Cited by 117 publications

References 29 publications

From Phenomenology to Neurophysiological Understanding of Hallucinations in Children and Adolescents

From Phenomenology to Neurophysiological Understanding of Hallucinations in Children and Adolescents

Bridging disparate symptoms of schizophrenia: a triple network dysfunction theory

Auditory top-down control and affective theory of mind in schizophrenia with and without hallucinations

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