Insight in schizophrenia: Relationship to positive, negative and neurocognitive dimensions

• Main Authors: Boban Joseph, Janardhanan C Narayanaswamy, Ganesan Venkatasubramanian
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-01-01
• Series: Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine
• Subjects: Insight; negative symptoms; neurocognition; positive symptoms; schizophrenia
• Online Access: http://www.ijpm.info/article.asp?issn=0253-7176;year=2015;volume=37;issue=1;spage=5;epage=11;aulast=Joseph

Impairment of insight is considered as the hallmark of schizophrenia. Substantial proportion of patients with schizophrenia has either poor or absent insight. Insight is a multidimensional and dynamic construct which appears to have intricate links with other symptom dimensions of the psychotic illness. A better appreciation of the association that insight shares with other symptom clusters in psychosis could help us in gaining knowledge about aetiology, prognosis and treatment-related facets of the disorder. This is likely to have critical implications in the understanding and therapeutics of schizophrenia.