In the last years, the study of schizotypy has become an important tool for the research on the aetiology of schizophrenia spectrum, given that studying schizophrenic patients makes it difficult to disentangle the impact of confounding variables such as the presence of psychotic symptoms and the effects of antipsychotic drugs.įactor analytic studies of schizotypy traits have shown at least three components: negative, positive and disorganization dimensions 3-8. Schizotypy is a phenotype hypothesized to result from the psychobiological organization underlying the risk for schizophrenia 2. Schizotypy is a personality dimension that comprises cognitive-perceptual unusual experiences, as well as motivational, affective, social and behavioural oddities 1. Key words: Schizotypy, Clusters, Neurocognition, General population. The positive and negative/disorganized schizotypy clusters showed poorer performance on semantic evocation compared with the low schizotypy cluster.Ĭonclusions: We found different patterns of specific schizotypy features in a healthy adult community sample and these clusters presented differential performance in relation with the ability to evoke semantic information. A three cluster model yielded the following clusters: 'lowschizotypy', 'positive schizotypy', and 'negative/disorganized schizotypy'. Results: Four neurocognitive factors were extracted: visuospatial, semantic evocation, verbal memory, and set-shifting. Methods: We examined seventy six healthy adults from the general population with a comprehensive neurocognitive battery and a schizotypal personality self-report. The aim of this study was to examine the existence of different profiles of schizotypal traits and their neurocognitIve correlates in non-clinical subjects by means of cluster analysis. SPAINīackground and Objectives: Inconsistencies in the relationship between schizotypy dimensions and neurocognitive functions found in correlational studies may be clarified with the use of alternative methodological approaches. ** Departament de Psicologia Clínica i de la Salut, Facultat de Psicologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona. * Unitat d'Antropologia, Departament de Biologia Animal, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona Carmen Aguilera Ruíz*, Neus Barrantes-Vidal* ,**, Marc Guitart*, Lourdes Fañanás*

Our findings must be replicated with larger and different comorbidity groups.Study of Neurocognitive correlates of Schizotypy Personality Clusters in healthy individuals These findings can be important with regards to psycho-social interventions. Conclusion: When the coping styles of bipolar patient groups those were divided according to having cluster B personality disorder or not were compared, it was seen that the group with cluster B personality disorder were using more dysfunctional coping styles. When the subscales were examined, the scores of focusing on emotions and expressing emotions, denial, retraining, and substance use subscales were higher among the patients with cluster B personality disorder. There were no significant differences for problem-focused coping scores, and emotion-focused coping scores among those patients. Results: In terms of coping styles, the patients with cluster B personality disorder had higher dysfunctional coping styles scores.

The COPE scale was also given to determine patients coping styles. SCID-I and SCID-II were used respectively. All things considered, we included 50 male and 50 female patients who had bipolar I disorder in remission period with cluster B personality disorder, and 50 male and 50 female patients without cluster B personality disorder. Methods: The patients who were in remission period and had bipolar disorder were included in the study. Objective: The effect of the presence of cluster B personality disorders which are frequent comorbidities with bipolar I disorder on the coping strategies was investigated and also it was studied whether there was a different profile.

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