Anomalies of Imagination, Self-Disorders, and Schizophrenia Spectrum Psychopathology: A Network Analysis.
Frontiers in psychiatry January 1, 2021 Andreas Rosén Rasmussen, Andrea Raballo, Antonio Preti et al. 21 citations
Anomalies of imagination—disturbances in the basic structure of fantasies and imagery—are highly characteristic of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and closely related to self-disorders. In a study of 81 participants, including patients with schizophrenia or other non-affective psychosis, schizotypal personality disorder, other mental illness, and healthy controls, these anomalies aggregated significantly in the schizophrenia-spectrum group compared to other mental illness and healthy controls, with no difference between schizophrenia and schizotypal disorder. Network analysis showed anomalies of imagination were closely interconnected with self-disorders, while correlations with perceptual disturbances and positive, negative, and general symptoms were moderate but separated in the network.