• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: The “Obsessive Paradox” : The Complex Relationship Between Cognitive and Obsessive Dimensions in Schizophrenia : The Complex Relationship Between Cognitive and Obsessive Dimensions in Schizophrenia
  • Beteiligte: Tonna, Matteo; Ottoni, Rebecca; Pellegrini, Clara; Bettini, Elena; Accardi, Valeria; Ossola, Paolo; De Panfilis, Chiara; Marchesi, Carlo
  • Erschienen: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2019
  • Erschienen in: Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 207 (2019) 9, Seite 715-720
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1097/nmd.0000000000000932
  • ISSN: 1539-736X; 0022-3018
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  • Beschreibung: Abstract The objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between cognitive functions and obsessive-compulsive dimension in schizophrenia and a possible moderating effect of schizophrenia symptom dimensions on this association. Sixty-one schizophrenia patients were administered the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale, the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (YBOCS), and the Matrics Consensus Cognitive Battery. A U-shaped curve described a gradual transition from an inverse association to a positive relationship between YBOCS and processing speed scores, along a severity gradient of obsessive dimension. This effect (“the obsessive paradox”) was not moderated by other symptom dimensions. The present study suggests that severe obsessive-compulsive symptoms may participate to counterbalance processing speed impairment independently from other symptom dimensions. These results highlight the complexity of the relationship between cognitive and obsessive dimensions in schizophrenia.