Discussion
The results of the present study confirm the hypothesis that patients with chronic schizophrenia have a general attention deficiency. These results are in accordance with consistent evidence of attention disorders in this clinical population. The importance of these results is based on the fact that attention is a central cognitive function enabling precision, rapidity and continuity to information processing, and interacts with other cognitive functions such as sensory perception, memory, language, executive functions, among others. This could explain the existence of generalized failures in different cognitive functions.
The present study specifically focused on the function of different components of attention and found that inhibitory attentional control and sustained attention were the most affected in patients with chronic schizophrenia. These observations are partly supported by other studies that found significant alterations in both these components of attention. Breton et al., recently found that patients had a specific attention deficient and a significantly worse performance in tests involving the executive attention network, while the alertness and orientating attentional networks remained intact.
DiscussionThe results of the present study confirm the hypothesis that patients with chronic schizophrenia have a general attention deficiency. These results are in accordance with consistent evidence of attention disorders in this clinical population. The importance of these results is based on the fact that attention is a central cognitive function enabling precision, rapidity and continuity to information processing, and interacts with other cognitive functions such as sensory perception, memory, language, executive functions, among others. This could explain the existence of generalized failures in different cognitive functions.The present study specifically focused on the function of different components of attention and found that inhibitory attentional control and sustained attention were the most affected in patients with chronic schizophrenia. These observations are partly supported by other studies that found significant alterations in both these components of attention. Breton et al., recently found that patients had a specific attention deficient and a significantly worse performance in tests involving the executive attention network, while the alertness and orientating attentional networks remained intact.
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