Postdiction in Visual Awareness in Schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The mistiming of predictive thought and real perception leads to postdiction in awareness. Individuals with high delusive thinking confuse prediction and perception, which results in impaired reality testing. The present observational study investigated how antipsychotic medications and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) modulate postdiction in schizophrenia. We hypothesized that treatment reduces postdiction, especially when antipsychotics and CBT are combined.

Methods

We enrolled patients with schizophrenia treated in a natural clinical setting and not in a randomized controlled trial. We followed up two schizophrenia groups matched for age, sex, education, and illness duration: patients on antipsychotics (n = 25) or antipsychotics plus CBT (n = 25

SUBMITTER: Keri S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9219622 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature