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Olfaction and Social Drive in Schizophrenia

Author(s) -

Dolores Malaspina,

Eliza Coleman

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

archives of general psychiatry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3636

pISSN - 0003-990X

DOI - 10.1001/archpsyc.60.6.578

Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychology , positive and negative syndrome scale , wechsler adult intelligence scale , psychosis , developmental psychology , neuropsychology , psychiatry , olfaction , clinical psychology , association (psychology) , audiology , cognition , medicine , neuroscience , psychotherapist

The neurobiology of social dysfunction in schizophrenia is unknown, but smell identification deficits (SIDs) exist in schizophrenia, and olfaction is related to social affiliation in other mammals. The SIDs have been linked with negative symptoms and the deficit syndrome, but any specificity of SIDs for social dysfunction is unstudied. Low intelligence might explain this relationship, if it is associated with both negative symptoms and SIDs. We examined whether SIDs in schizophrenia were related broadly to negative symptoms, as are a number of other neuropsychological measures, or whether they might show a more specific relationship with social drive.

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