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. 2006 Aug 30;143(2-3):179-87.
doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2005.09.006. Epub 2006 Jul 11.

Impairment of event schema in patients with schizophrenia: examination of script for shopping at supermarket

Mié Matsui  1 , Tomiki Sumiyoshi, Hiromi Yuuki, Kanade Kato, Masayoshi Kurachi
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Impairment of event schema in patients with schizophrenia: examination of script for shopping at supermarket

Mié Matsui et al. Psychiatry Res. .

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine event schema, the conceptualization of past experience based on script theory, in Japanese patients with schizophrenia. Subjects comprised 25 patients meeting DSM-IV criteria for schizophrenia and 31 normal individuals who gave informed consent. This experiment used three script tasks measuring free recall, frequency judgment, and sequencing of events encountered when shopping at a supermarket. Patients with schizophrenia performed significantly worse than did control subjects on all tasks. In particular, patients committed more errors when judging the events that "occasionally happen" in the frequency judgment task. On the other hand, these patients judged "seldom occurring events" relatively well. Patients with schizophrenia made more errors than normal people in the free recall task. Specifically, patients made more intrusion errors and failed to close scripts. There was a negative correlation between scores the Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms and performance on the free recall task. The results of the present study suggest that event schemas (semantic structure) in patients with schizophrenia are impaired which may be associated with positive symptoms and frontal lobe dysfunction.

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