Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Netherlands
Research Article
Symptomatic and Functional Recovery: Does Symptom Severity Affect the Recovery of Executive Functioning in People with Psychotic Disorders?
Author(s): B.C. van Aken*, A.I. Wierdsma, Y. Voskes, G.H.M. Pijnenborg, J. van Weeghel and C.L. Mulder
Background: Recovery in psychotic disorder patients is a multidimensional concept that can include personal, symptomatic, societal and functional recovery. Here we define Functional Recovery (FR) as recovery or compensation after the loss or impairment of skills in different cognitive functions. Some of the most impaired cognitive functions in psychosis are the executive functions, whose impairment in people with a psychotic disorder can produce problems that are difficult to overcome, partly because treatment often focuses only on Symptomatic Recovery (SR). Although symptom severity may be a risk factor for longstanding impairments of executive functioning, the association is not always found. To date, there has been little research on the association between the 2.
Method: This study is part of the UP’S study, a longitudinal cohort stud.. View More»
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