Locate conflicting reports within the literature concerning the relationships among impaired insight, symptoms, and neurocognition in schizophrenia. The inconsistent findings likely reflect the multidimensionality of insight in such a population, in addition to variations in study design. We examined 46 people with chronic schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder have been recently discharged from an inpatient unit. [...]

Mental disorders in which impairment of mental function has developed to a degree that interferes grossly with insight, ability to meet some ordinary demands of life, or to maintain adequate contact with reality It is not an exact or well defined term Mental retardation is excluded Symptoms of schizophrenia are found around the world in many cultures Profiles of [...]