Mental Imagery in First-Degree Relatives of Patients with Schizophrenia | Zendy

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Mental Imagery in First-Degree Relatives of Patients with Schizophrenia

Author(s) -

Shahrzad Mazhari,

Nooshin Parvaresh,

Ali Mohammad Pourrahimi,

Ghodratollah Rajabizadeh,

Kianoosh Abasabadi

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

iranian journal of psychiatry and behavioral sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.28

H-Index - 17

eISSN - 1735-9287

pISSN - 1735-8639

DOI - 10.17795/ijpbs-7425

Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , first degree relatives , mental rotation , psychology , cognition , laterality , psychiatry , trait , psychosis , negative symptom , clinical psychology , audiology , medicine , family history , developmental psychology , computer science , programming language

Background: Implicit mental rotation has been studied in patients with schizophrenia; however, no research has examined it in relatives of the patients. Objectives: This study compared the performances of schizophrenia patients with their unaffected relatives to shed further light on the nature of cognitive functioning in schizophrenia relatives. Materials and Methods: We examined mental rotation in 25 schizophrenia patients, 25 of their first-degree relatives and 25 controls, using the Hand Rotation Task. In this task, the participants had to determine the laterality of hands showed in various orien-

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