Anxiety symptoms, rule learning, and cognitive flexibility in non-clinical psychosis.

ABSTRACT: Individuals with psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) represent a critical group for improving the understanding of vulnerability factors across the psychosis continuum. A growing body of literature has identified functional deficits associated with PLEs. However, it is unclear if such deficits purely reveal the underlying psychosis vulnerability or if they are also linked with comorbid anxiety symptoms. Although anxiety disorders are often associated with impairments in psychosis-risk, symptoms of anxiety may facilitate executive functioning in certain psychosis groups. The Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences was completed to assess psychosis-like symptoms in a total of 57 individuals, and its median score was used to categorize PLE groups (high-PLE = 24, low-PLE = 33). Anxiety sympt

SUBMITTER: Park JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8983653 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature