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Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Show Reduced Specificity and Less Positive Events in Mental Time Travel

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Title
Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Show Reduced Specificity and Less Positive Events in Mental Time Travel
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Frontiers in Psychology, July 2016
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01121
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Xing-jie Chen, Lu-lu Liu, Ji-fang Cui, Ya Wang, An-tao Chen, Feng-hua Li, Wei-hong Wang, Han-feng Zheng, Ming-yuan Gan, Chun-qiu Li, David H. K. Shum, Raymond C. K. Chan

Abstract

Mental time travel refers to the ability to recall past events and to imagine possible future events. Schizophrenia (SCZ) patients have problems in remembering specific personal experiences in the past and imagining what will happen in the future. This study aimed to examine episodic past and future thinking in SCZ spectrum disorders including SCZ patients and individuals with schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) proneness who are at risk for developing SCZ. Thirty-two SCZ patients, 30 SPD proneness individuals, and 33 healthy controls participated in the study. The Sentence Completion for Events from the Past Test (SCEPT) and the Sentence Completion for Events in the Future Test were used to measure past and future thinking abilities. Results showed that SCZ patients showed significantly reduced specificity in recalling past and imagining future events, they generated less proportion of specific and extended events compared to healthy controls. SPD proneness individuals only generated less extended events compared to healthy controls. The reduced specificity was mainly manifested in imagining future events. Both SCZ patients and SPD proneness individuals generated less positive events than controls. These results suggest that mental time travel impairments in SCZ spectrum disorders and have implications for understanding their cognitive and emotional deficits.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 26%
Researcher 7 16%
Student > Master 6 14%
Student > Bachelor 4 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Other 5 12%
Unknown 7 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 15 35%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 5%
Neuroscience 2 5%
Decision Sciences 2 5%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 15 35%
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