Neurocognition and Social Cognition Predicting 1-Year Outcomes in First-Episode Psychosis.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive performance at illness onset may predict outcomes in first-episode psychosis (FEP), and the change in cognition may associate with clinical changes. Cognitive testing was administered to 54 FEP participants 2 months after entering treatment and to 39 participants after 1 year. We investigated whether baseline cognition predicted 1-year outcomes beyond positive, negative, and affective symptoms and whether the trajectory of cognition associated with clinical change. Baseline overall neurocognitive performance predicted the 1-year social and occupational level, occupational status, and maintaining of life goals. The domain of processing speed associated with the 1-year remission, occupational status, and maintaining of life goals. Baseline social cognition associated with occupatio

SUBMITTER: Lindgren M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7746550 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature