PMID- 18514322
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20081008
LR  - 20151119
IS  - 0165-1781 (Print)
IS  - 0165-1781 (Linking)
VI  - 160
IP  - 1
DP  - 2008 Jul 15
TI  - Awareness of everyday executive difficulties precede overt executive dysfunction 
      in schizotypal subjects.
PG  - 8-14
LID - 10.1016/j.psychres.2007.06.004 [doi]
AB  - Much evidence indicates that schizophrenic patients exhibit deficits on tests of 
      executive functioning. It is therefore hypothesized that individuals with high 
      schizotypal personality traits that may have a predisposition to schizophrenia, 
      are also likely to exhibit impairments in neuropsychological tests of executive 
      function. The sample consisted of 65 healthy controls that were divided into high 
      and low scorers on the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ-B: Raine et 
      al., 1995). Participants completed a battery of executive tasks (category and 
      letter fluency, the Hayling test, Zoo map); however, a MANOVA revealed no 
      significant differences between high and low SPQ scorers. Nevertheless, high SPQ 
      scorers scored significantly higher on the Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX) 
      self-rating scale of everyday executive problems; and these self-ratings 
      correlated significantly with the disorganisation and cognitive-perceptual 
      features of the SPQ-B, but not with the interpersonal features. This suggests 
      that perceived executive dysfunction is pre-morbidly present and may become 
      evident in test performance only with the onset of schizophrenia itself.
FAU - Laws, Keith R
AU  - Laws KR
AD  - School of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane Hatfield, UK. 
      k.laws@herts.ac.uk
FAU - Patel, Devina D
AU  - Patel DD
FAU - Tyson, Philip J
AU  - Tyson PJ
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20080602
PL  - Ireland
TA  - Psychiatry Res
JT  - Psychiatry research
JID - 7911385
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Attitude to Health
MH  - *Awareness
MH  - Cognition Disorders/*diagnosis/physiopathology/psychology
MH  - Control Groups
MH  - Disease Susceptibility/diagnosis
MH  - Female
MH  - Frontal Lobe/*physiopathology
MH  - Health Status
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Neuropsychological Tests/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Personality Inventory/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Psychometrics
MH  - Schizophrenia/diagnosis/physiopathology
MH  - Schizotypal Personality Disorder/*diagnosis/physiopathology/psychology
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2008/06/03 09:00
MHDA- 2008/10/09 09:00
CRDT- 2008/06/03 09:00
PHST- 2006/11/07 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2007/03/19 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2007/06/03 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2008/06/03 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/10/09 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/06/03 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0165-1781(07)00170-9 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.psychres.2007.06.004 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Psychiatry Res. 2008 Jul 15;160(1):8-14. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2007.06.004. 
      Epub 2008 Jun 2.