Temporal stability of self-disorders and longitudinal unfolding of symptom dimensions: A complementary analysis

Anomalous subjective experiences (i.e. self-disorders, SD) constitute a core, schizophrenia spectrum vulnerability phenotype. Indeed, they have been consistently identified in several clinical and familiar high-risk populations (Raballo and Parnas, 2011; Sass, 2014; Hur et al., 2014; Park and Nasrallah, 2014). Clinically they encompass subtle, yet pervasive experiential distortions, such as alterations of the stream of consciousness and of the cognitive-attentional or psychomotor flow, perplexity and failing grip on shared meanings, hyper-reflexivity and sense of solipsistic alienation from others (Parnas et al., 2005; Sass, 2014).
Source: Schizophrenia Research - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research