Cognitive NeuropsychiatryPub Date : 2024-05-01Epub Date: 2024-05-26DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2024.2358919
Jesus Ramirez-Bermudez, Maria Yoldi-Negrete, Iris Martinez Juarez, Jorge Cárdenas Belaunzaran, Max Coltheart
{"title":"Visual hallucinations of autobiographical memories: a single-case study.","authors":"Jesus Ramirez-Bermudez, Maria Yoldi-Negrete, Iris Martinez Juarez, Jorge Cárdenas Belaunzaran, Max Coltheart","doi":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2358919","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2358919","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Introduction:</b> We report an epileptic patient who experienced hallucinatory visual experiences of autobiographical memories from her past. These visual experiences were confined to the lower left quadrant of her visual field.<b>Methods:</b> We carried out a single-case study that used brain-imaging, EEG and behavioural methods to study this patient.<b>Results:</b> We found that this patient had an incomplete left inferior homonymous quadrantanopia due to a lesion of right occipital cortex, and also that she showed neurological abnormalities in right temporal cortex, a region that is part of the brain's autobiographical-memory circuit.<b>Conclusion:</b> We attribute the occurrence of this patient's autobiographical-memory hallucinations to the combination of degraded visual input to right temporal cortex plus hyperexcitability of that region.</p>","PeriodicalId":51277,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"186-193"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141155865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeuropsychiatryPub Date : 2024-05-01Epub Date: 2024-05-24DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2024.2357065
Mohamad El Haj, Frank Larøi, Guillaume Chapelet
{"title":"Limited awareness of hallucinations in patients with Alzheimer's disease.","authors":"Mohamad El Haj, Frank Larøi, Guillaume Chapelet","doi":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2357065","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2357065","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>We investigated the degree of cognitive insight in patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) regarding their hallucinations, aiming to elucidate the subjective experiences and perceptions associated with this phenomenon.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using a cross-sectional design, we invited both AD patients (<i>n</i> = 31) and their informants to evaluate the occurrence of hallucinations. Degree of cognitive insight was based upon the discrepancy between the patients' and informants' evaluations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Analysis demonstrated that AD patients rated the occurrence of hallucinations lower than their informants, indicating that patients tended to underestimate the frequency of their hallucinations. The discrepancy between the ratings of patients and informants was negatively correlated with cognitive functioning, suggesting that a greater discrepancy (indicating poorer insight) was associated with lower cognitive functioning in patients.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Our findings highlight the deficits in insight into hallucinations among AD patients, specifically indicating that AD patients have limited awareness of their own hallucinations. Furthermore, our findings support the idea that deficits in insight into hallucinations are associated with the progression of AD.</p>","PeriodicalId":51277,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"173-185"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141094606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Validation of the Turkish version of the Neurological Fatigue Index for Stroke","authors":"Hilalnur Küçükakgün, Zeliha Tulek, Kimya Kılıçaslan, Jbid Dursun Uncu, Ceren Bayrak, Roya Soltanalizadeh, Yakup Krespi","doi":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2337155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2024.2337155","url":null,"abstract":"Post-stroke fatigue is an often overlooked problem that hinders recovery. Therefore, stroke patients should be evaluated for fatigue during the recovery period. This study aimed to adapt the Neurol...","PeriodicalId":51277,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychiatry","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140581067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeuropsychiatryPub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2024.2313470
Kaitlin Moat, Guy Wallis, Ken McAnally, Phil Grove, Agnes Horvath
{"title":"Schizotypy and perceptual span in a non-clinical sample: a virtual reality study.","authors":"Kaitlin Moat, Guy Wallis, Ken McAnally, Phil Grove, Agnes Horvath","doi":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2313470","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2313470","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Individuals with high schizotypy or schizophrenia exhibit difficulties in distributing their attention across space, leading to a reduction in their \"perceptual span\" - the extent of visual space that can be attended to at once. In this study, we aim to explore the correlation between schizotypy and perceptual span in a non-clinical sample to investigate whether perceptual span correlates with schizotypy across its range.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Schizotypy was assessed in fifty-five participants using the Schizotypy Personality Questionnaire (SPQ; Raine, 1991). Participants were required to attend to two dynamic targets displayed in a head-mounted virtual reality display. Perceptual span was estimated as the lateral angle of separation between the two targets beyond which performance in the task dropped to threshold.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants with higher schizotypy scores performed significantly worse on the task. Of all the factors associated with schizotypy, the shared variance between Disorganisation and Cognitive/Perceptual Factors was most predictive of task performance.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The results support the hypothesis that schizotypy predicts perceptual span in non-clinical samples. Furthermore, the demonstration of a reduced perceptual span in individuals with higher trait schizotypy shows that variations in an individual's capacity to divide attention across space can be accurately captured using a virtual reality head-mounted display.</p>","PeriodicalId":51277,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"103-115"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139693525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeuropsychiatryPub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2024-02-09DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2024.2313387
Elvan Ciftci, Shams Farhad, Baris Metin, Nevzat Tarhan
{"title":"Neurocognition across bipolar disorder phases compared to healthy subjects.","authors":"Elvan Ciftci, Shams Farhad, Baris Metin, Nevzat Tarhan","doi":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2313387","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2313387","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Bipolar disorder (BD) is associated with cognitive abnormalities that may persist during euthymia and are linked to poor occupational performance. The cognitive differences between phases of BD are not well known. Therefore, a cross-sectional study with a relatively large population was conducted to evaluate the differences among BD phases in a wide range of neurocognitive parameters.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Neuropsychological profile of 169 patients with a diagnosis of BD in manic, depressive, mixed, and euthymic phases between the ages of 18 and 70 years were compared to 45 healthy individuals' between ages of 24 and 69 years. The working memory (digit-span backward test), face recognition, executive functions (verbal fluency and Stroop test), face recognition, and visual and verbal memory (immediate and delayed recall) were evaluated. For BD subgroup analyses, we used the Kruskal-Wallis (KW) test. Then, for the comparison of BD versus healthy individuals, we used the Mann-Whitney U (MWU) test.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Analyses based on non-parametric tests showed impairments in BD for all tests. There were no significant differences between phases.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Cognitive performance in patients with BD appears to be mostly unrelated to the phase of the disorder, implying that cognitive dysfunction in BD is present even during remission.</p>","PeriodicalId":51277,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"73-86"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139713332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeuropsychiatryPub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2024-04-02DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2024.2326243
Toni D Pikoos, Amy Malcolm, David J Castle, Susan L Rossell
{"title":"A hierarchy of visual processing deficits in body dysmorphic disorder: a conceptual review and empirical investigation.","authors":"Toni D Pikoos, Amy Malcolm, David J Castle, Susan L Rossell","doi":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2326243","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2326243","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Abnormal visual processing has been proposed as a mechanism underlying excessive focus on minor appearance flaws in body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). Existing BDD research has not differentiated the various stages of face processing (featural, first-order configural, holistic and second-order configural) that are required for higher-order processes such as emotion recognition. This study investigated a hierarchical visual processing model to examine the nature of abnormalities in face processing in BDD.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Thirty BDD participants and 27 healthy controls completed the Navon task, a featural and configural face processing task and a facial emotion labelling task.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>BDD participants performed similarly to controls when processing global and local non-face stimuli on the Navon task, when detecting subtle changes in the features and spacing of a target face, and when labelling emotional faces. However, BDD participants displayed poorer performance when viewing inverted faces, indicating difficulties in configural processing.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings only partially support prior work. However, synthesis of results with previous findings indicates that heterogenous task methodologies may contribute to inconsistent findings. Recommendations are provided regarding the task parameters that appear most sensitive to abnormalities in BDD.</p>","PeriodicalId":51277,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"116-140"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140337570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeuropsychiatryPub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2024-02-16DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2024.2313467
Luke Wilson Rogers, Mma Yeebo, Daniel Collerton, Peter Moseley, Robert Dudley
{"title":"Non-clinical hallucinations and mental imagery across sensory modalities.","authors":"Luke Wilson Rogers, Mma Yeebo, Daniel Collerton, Peter Moseley, Robert Dudley","doi":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2313467","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2313467","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Vivid mental imagery has been proposed to increase the likelihood of experiencing hallucinations. Typically, studies have employed a modality general approach to mental imagery which compares imagery across multiple domains (e.g., visual, auditory and tactile) to hallucinations in multiple senses. However, modality specific imagery may be a better predictor of hallucinations in the same domain. The study examined the contribution of imagery to hallucinations in a non-clinical sample and specifically whether imagery best predicted hallucinations at a modality general or modality specific level.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In study one, modality general and modality specific accounts of the imagery-hallucination relationship were contrasted through application of self-report measures in a sample of 434 students. Study two used a subsample (<i>n</i> = 103) to extend exploration of the imagery-hallucinations relationship using a performance-based imagery task.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A small to moderate modality general relationship was observed between self-report imagery and hallucination proneness. There was only evidence of a modality specific relationship in the tactile domain. Performance-based imagery measures were unrelated to hallucinations and self-report imagery.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Mental imagery may act as a modality general process increasing hallucination proneness. The observed distinction between self-report and performance-based imagery highlights the difficulty of accurately measuring internal processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":51277,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"87-102"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139742666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeuropsychiatryPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-02-12DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2024.2314941
Mikaela J Bere, Susan L Rossell, Eric J Tan, Sean P Carruthers, Caroline Gurvich, Erica Neill, Philip J Sumner, Tamsyn E Van Rheenen, Wei Lin Toh
{"title":"Exploring the cognitive profiles related to unimodal auditory versus multisensory hallucinations in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.","authors":"Mikaela J Bere, Susan L Rossell, Eric J Tan, Sean P Carruthers, Caroline Gurvich, Erica Neill, Philip J Sumner, Tamsyn E Van Rheenen, Wei Lin Toh","doi":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2314941","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2314941","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Hallucinations can be experienced across multiple sensory modalities, but psychiatric studies investigating the cognitive mechanisms of hallucinations have been somewhat restricted to the auditory domain. This study explored the cognitive profiles of individuals experiencing multisensory hallucinations (MH) in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (SSD) and compared these to those experiencing unimodal auditory hallucinations (AH) or no hallucinations (NH).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants included SSD patients (<i>n</i> = 119) stratified by current hallucination status (NH, AH, MH) and nonclinical controls (NCs; <i>n</i> = 113). Group performance was compared across several cognitive domains: speed of processing, attention, working memory, verbal learning, visual learning, reasoning and problem-solving, social cognition, and inhibition.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The clinical groups performed worse than NCs but differences between the clinical groups were not evident across most cognitive domains. Exploratory analyses revealed that the MH group was more impaired on the visual learning task compared to the NH (but not AH) group.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Preliminary results suggest that impaired visual learning may be related to MH. This could be attributed to the presence of visual hallucinations (VH), or greater psychopathology, in this group. However, replication is needed, as well as the investigation of other potential cognitive mechanisms of MH.</p>","PeriodicalId":51277,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"55-71"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139724920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeuropsychiatryPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2024.2313474
Max Coltheart, Martin Davies
{"title":"Koro: a socially-transmitted delusional belief.","authors":"Max Coltheart, Martin Davies","doi":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2313474","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2313474","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Koro is a delusion whereby a man believes his penis is shrinking into his abdomen and this may result in his death. This socially-transmitted non-neuropsychological delusional belief occurs (in epidemic form) in South-East and South Asia. We investigated whether the two-factor theory of delusion could be applied to epidemic Koro.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We scrutinised the literature on epidemic Koro to isolate features relevant to the two questions that must be answered to provide a two-factor account: What could initially prompt the Koro delusional hypothesis? Why is this hypothesis adopted as a belief?</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We concluded that the Koro hypothesis is usually prompted by the surprising observation of actual penis shrinkage-but only if the man has access to background beliefs about Koro. Whether the hypothesis is then adopted as a belief will depend on individual factors such as prior belief in the Koro concept or limited formal education and sociocultural factors such as deference to culture, to media, or to rumours spread by word of mouth. Social transmission can influence how the first factor works and how the second factor works.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The two-factor theory of delusion can be applied to a socially-transmitted delusion that occurs in epidemic form.</p>","PeriodicalId":51277,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"10-28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139724921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive NeuropsychiatryPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2024.2313463
Huw Green, Leah Seiler, Fahim Anwar
{"title":"Everything in its right place: a case report of reduplicative paramnesia with therapeutic and theoretical considerations.","authors":"Huw Green, Leah Seiler, Fahim Anwar","doi":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2313463","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13546805.2024.2313463","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Introductions:</b> Reduplicative paramnesia (RP) is a rare and poorly understood phenomenon in which a person believes the place they are in has been replicated and exists in two places at once. There is minimal extant theoretical work addressing possible cognitive mechanisms subtending RP.<b>Method:</b> We present a new case of RP and discuss the therapeutic and theoretical implications of this case for the management and understanding of this phenomenon. Using the hypothetico-deductive approach to a neuropsychological case, we examine the phenomenon in the light of one and two-factor approaches to understanding the genesis of delusions.<b>Results:</b> The individual discussed in this case showed some evidence of relatively efficient incorporation of new evidence (belief updating) despite concurrently maintaining a delusional belief system.<b>Conclusion:</b> This case raises novel challenges for the two-factor account of neurological delusions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51277,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Neuropsychiatry","volume":" ","pages":"41-54"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139673609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}