Impaired illness awareness and leftward visuospatial inattention in schizophrenia are attributable to a common neural deficit - Posterior parietal hemispheric imbalance

Julia Kim; Eric Plitman; Shinichiro Nakajima; Jun Ku Chung; Youssef Alshehri; Yusuke Iwata; Fernando Caravaggio; Bruce G Pollock; Dave Pothier; Ariel Graff-Guerrero; Philip Gerretsen

doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2017.01.007

Impaired illness awareness and leftward visuospatial inattention in schizophrenia are attributable to a common neural deficit - Posterior parietal hemispheric imbalance

Med Hypotheses. 2017 Mar:100:19-22. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2017.01.007. Epub 2017 Jan 16.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Multimodal Imaging Group, Research Imaging Centre, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
² Multimodal Imaging Group, Research Imaging Centre, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
³ Geriatric Psychiatry Division, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.
⁴ Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Geriatric Psychiatry Division, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.
⁵ Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁶ Multimodal Imaging Group, Research Imaging Centre, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Geriatric Psychiatry Division, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.
⁷ Multimodal Imaging Group, Research Imaging Centre, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada; Geriatric Psychiatry Division, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada. Electronic address: philgerretsen@yahoo.com.

PMID: 28236841
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2017.01.007

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MeSH terms

Adult
Attention
Attitude to Health
Awareness / physiology*
Functional Laterality*
Humans
Middle Aged
Parietal Lobe / physiopathology*
Psychotic Disorders / physiopathology*
Schizophrenia / physiopathology*
Space Perception*
Vision, Ocular
Visual Perception*