Insight and cortisol responses in women with first episode psychosis

The concept of insight and its relationship to mental disorders is most frequently understood as a conscious recognition of one's own mental state or the degree of personal awareness or self-understanding (Lysaker et al., 2013). In recent research, insight is most frequently studied in schizophrenia patients and disturbances of self-awareness and conscious experience might have a critical role in pathophysiology of schizophrenia (Bob et al., 2016).

Source: Schizophrenia Research - June 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tereza Petraskova Touskova, Petr Bob, Ondrej Pec, Aaron Mishara, Zdislava Vanickova, Jiri Raboch, Paul Lysaker Tags: Letter to the editor Source Type: research