COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHIATRY AND SCHIZOPHRENIA

Cognitive neuropsychiatry applies a slightly different emphasis from t raditional studies of cognitive disturbances in schizophrenia in that it attempts to link symptoms with dysfunction. This review highlights such work. We also note an increased sophistication in the understandi ng of structural-functional pathology in schizophrenia, which more fre quently implies a model of disordered interrelationships between diffe rent brain areas. New interpretations of several well-known cognitive paradigms as well as novel ones (reality monitoring and `theory of min d' tasks), given to subgroups of patients with psychotic disturbances, have been proposed, which have advanced our understanding of the neur opsychology of schizophrenia.