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Theory of mind in schizophrenia: Meta-analysis

Mentalising impairment (an impaired ability to think about people in terms of their mental states) has frequently been associated with schizophrenia. To assess the magnitude of the deficit and analyse associated factors. Twenty-nine studies of mentalising in schizophrenia (combined n=1518), publishe...

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Published in:British journal of psychiatry 2007-07, Vol.191 (1), p.5-13
Main Authors: Sprong, Mirjam, Schothorst, Patricia, Vos, Ellen, Hox, Joop, Van Engeland, Herman
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Autism
Child
Child & adolescent psychiatry
Child, Preschool
Cognition
Cognition Disorders - epidemiology
Cognition Disorders - psychology
Deception
Effect Modifier, Epidemiologic
Humans
Mental disorders
Mental states
Meta-analysis
Psychiatry
Psychosis
Quantitative psychology
Remission
Remission (Medicine)
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia - classification
Schizophrenia - epidemiology
Schizophrenic Psychology
Severity of Illness Index
Social Perception
Statistical analysis
Statistics as Topic
Studies
Systematic review
Task analysis
Theory of mind
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