Open AccessAssessment of cognition in non-affected full biological siblings of patients with schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Rohit Garg,
Trivedi Jk,
Pronob Kumar Dalal,
Anil Nischal,
Preema Sinha,
Saurabh Varma
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.120543
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , sibling , wisconsin card sorting test , proband , psychology , cognition , psychiatry , clinical psychology , neuropsychological test , psychosis , neuropsychology , mental illness , developmental psychology , mental health , biochemistry , chemistry , mutation , gene
Schizophrenia is a devastating psychotic illness which is like the most mental disorders, shows complex inheritance; the transmission of the disorder most likely involves several genes and environmental factors. It is difficult to judge whether a particular person without schizophrenia has predisposing factors for the said disease. A few studies have shown the relative sensitivity and reliability of cognitive and psychophysiological markers of brain function as the susceptibility factors for schizophrenia which may aid us to find people with an increased risk of complex disorders like schizophrenia. The present work is an exploration on cognitive impairments in unaffected siblings of patients suffering from schizophrenia with a framework to explore why a mental disorder occurs in some families but not in others.