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Models Mechanisms and Measurement Dr Kathryn Greenwood Department of Psychology University of Sussex amp Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Overview Personal Accounts Theories of symptoms cognition and function in schizophrenia ID: 268301

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Slide1

Impaired Functioning in Schizophrenia: Models, Mechanisms and Measurement

Dr Kathryn Greenwood

Department of Psychology, University of Sussex & Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation TrustSlide2

Overview

Personal Accounts

Theories of symptoms, cognition and function in schizophrenia

Studies

1 Executive impairment profiles in Schizophrenia (JINS)

2 Executive impairments and symptoms models (Schiz Bull)

(including in materials in preparation)

3 Cognitive impairments and Awareness (Schiz Bull)

4 Genes and outcome (Neuroscience letters)

5 VR as a measurement tool (in preparation)

Clinical implications and future directionsSlide3

Personal AccountsSlide4

“My concentration is very poor. I jump from one thing to another. If I am talking to someone they only need to cross their legs or scratch their head and I am distracted and forget what I was saying.”

McGhie and Chapman, 1961Slide5

“I was looking at A or B for some subjects now I’m looking at C or D if I’m lucky.”

“Memory loss is the new thing that’s bothering me.”

“I have low concentration”

“I’m coming to terms with the fact that I have got a learning difficulty.”

Michael, Aged 16 years

Inside my head - Channel 4, June 2002Slide6

Work

“I want to be able to do things that other people do, like have a boyfriend and a job …”

Social Functioning

“I want to have friends”

Community Function

“I want to be able to cook and eat when I want”

“I want to live in my own place not a hostel”

Slide7

Theoretical BackgroundSlide8

Crow 1980

Type I schizophrenia

Type II schizophrenia

Positive symptoms

Negative symptoms

Intact cognition

Impaired cognition

Dopamine abnormalities

Ventricular and other structural abnormalities

Good treatment response

Poor treatment response

Good outcome

Poor outcomeSlide9

Liddle 1987, 1991

Reality Distortion

Disorganisation

Psychomotor Poverty

Hallucinations/

Delusions

Disorders of thinking and affect

Flat affect

Poverty of speech movement, gesture

Impaired figure-ground perception

Initiation

Orientation

Attention

Inhibition

Working memory

Initiation

Strategy use

Processing in LTM

Poor self care and occupation fx

Poor poor social and recreational fxSlide10

Baddeley’s Working Memory Model

Central Executive

Visuospatial Sketchpad

Phonological

Loop

Store

Baddeley and Hitch, 1978; Baddeley and Della Sala 1996Slide11

Goldman-Rakic 1987

Adjacent modality-specific working memory systems in DLPFC with own control systems: a fundamental impairment in schizophreniaSlide12

Shallice’s Supervisory Attentional System

Automatic contention scheduling

Until

i) novel environment

ii) requirement to inhibit one strong or several weak competing schema

New Schema construction

Implementation in working memory

Monitoring and Inhibition

Norman and Shallice 1982; Shallice and Burgess 1992; 1996Slide13

Frith’s Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia 1992

Three main (theory of mind) disorders:

Disorders of willed intentions (action driven by intention)

Disorders of self-monitoring

Monitoring the Intentions of others

Negative symptoms = absence of initiation of willed intentions, plans and strategies and impaired monitoring of others so missed communication cues

Thought disorder (incoherence of behaviour/affect) = poor inhibition of stimulus driven responses by intentions, as well as impaired self monitoring of communication goal to output and impaired monitoring of listener’s understandingSlide14

Do Specific Cognitive deficits predict specific domains of function?

Velligan et al. 2000Slide15

Neurocognition and function: Are we measuring the right stuff? Green 2000

learning potential and skill acquisition as mediators of functional outcome

Card Sort

Immediate verbal

memory

Community/daily

activities

Social problem solving/

instrumental skills

Psychosocial skill

acquisition

Verbal fluencySlide16

Green’s conclusions 2000‘We have learned whether but not HOWneurcognition is related to functional outcome?’

Need to know what mediates relation between neurocognition and outcome?

Processes (learning potential) that underlie the ability to acquire and perform life skills

Social cognitionSlide17

There is a need for new cognitive models of negative symptoms and function in order to improve functional outcomesSlide18

Lincoln et al. (in press)

Negative symptoms associated with Impaired Social Cognition:

difficulties in ToM

lower self-esteem

less self-serving bias

Negative self-concepts related to interpersonal abilities

Dysfunctional acceptance beliefs.

Some social cognitive impairments (ToM) were associated with negative symptoms only in people with low self-esteem.

So self-concepts related to social abilities, dysfunctional beliefs and global self-worth alone and in interaction with skill-deficits are associated with negative symptomsSlide19

Rector, Beck and Stolar (2005)

Low expectancies for pleasure, success, acceptance & perception of limited resources play a major role in the formation of negative symptoms

Dysfunctional performance beliefs (e.g. If I fail partly, it is as bad as being a complete failure) associated with negative symptoms

Indirect pathways between functional capacity (cognitive impairment), dysfunctional performance beliefs, and negative symptoms and real-world functioningSlide20

Past and current studiesSlide21

Research Aims

To understand the mechanisms through which bio-psychosocial factors including

Gene markers

Phenomenology of schizophrenia

Cognitive function &

Psychological function (thinking, mood and behaviour)

Affect functional outcome in schizophreniaSlide22

Study 1 Aims

Categorisation of sub-groups by neuropsychological profile in all cases confounds the relationship between symptoms and chronicity.

Aims

To explore the severity and profile of executive functioning in relation to disorganisation and psychomotor poverty and simultaneously

To investigate the early and late profiles in first episode and chronic schizophrenia.

Hypothesis

Chronicity will associate with similar but more severe impairment

Disorganisation will associate with broad executive deficit

Psychomotor poverty with impaired working memory and response initiationSlide23

Study 1 Measuresworking memory

Digit span, word span, executive golf

planning and strategy formation

Tower of london, hayling and executive golf strategy scores

response initiation

Verbal fluency

response inhibition

Hayling test and complex reaction time test

IQ

WAIS-R and NART-RSlide24

Novel measures – the question

To assess similar processes in cognitive & function task

Working memory example

3KA27

Crunchy Green salad 250g £1.09

Crunchy Green salad 500g £1.24

Mixed Salad 250g £1.15

Caesar Salad 120g £ 1.05 Slide25

Example using Search Strategy

Slide26

Novel measures – the answer

Example using Working Memory

3KA27

237AK

Caesar Salad 120g £ 1.05

Crunchy Green salad 250g £1.09

Mixed Salad 250g £1.15

Crunchy Green salad 500g £1.24Slide27

Example using Search Strategy

Slide28

Study 1 Analysis

Group differences in executive function

MANCOVA’s controlling for WAIS IQ

Executive profiles

Converted to z-scores and compared using generalised estimating equations (GEE). Group as between and executive function as within subject factor

Specific islets of strength/deficit

Domain score compared to average of all others while holding IQ constant Slide29

Study 1 Symptom study

Controls

(n = 28)

Psychomotor Poverty ( n = 29)

Disorganisation

(n = 29)

Statistical Test

_______________

Test statistic df p

Age (Years)

33.1

(7.34)

33.9

(8.81)

36.2

(8.04)

F=1.2

2,83

.31

Sex (%Male)

89

93

86

X

2

=.74

2

.69

Parental SES

3/15/10

4/13/9 (n=7)

2/18/8 (n=8)

X

2

=1.4

4

.48

Education(Yrs)

14.5

(2.81)

12.8

(2.37)

12.1

(2.19)

F=7.0

2,83

.00

Premorbid IQ

110.0

(6.54)

97.0

(12.1)

96.8

(11.5)

F=14.8.

2,83

.00

Current IQ

113.2

(16.0)

90.0

(17.6)

88.7

(12.7)

F=22.2

2,83

.00

Illness Length (Yrs)

7.83

(7.4)

11.9

(8.55)

F=3.9

1,56

.05Slide30

Study 1 Chronicity study

Controls

(n = 28)

First Episode

(n = 22)

Chronic

(n = 35)

Statistical Test

______________

Test statistic df p

Age (Years)

33.1

(7.34)

28.6

(9.9)

38.1

(6.9)

*

Sex (%Male)

89

82

94

X

2

= 2.2

2

.33

Parental SES

3/15/10

1/12/8

(n=21)

4/19/11

(n=5)

X

2

= .87

4

.93

Education(Yrs)

14.5

(2.81)

13.1

(2.98)

12.6

(2.25)

F=4.1

2,82

.02

Premorbid IQ

110.0

(6.54)

93.7

(8.9)

99.5

(12.4)

F=17.8

2,82

.001

Current IQ

113.2

(16.0)

92.2

(17.2)

91.1

(14.1)

F=18.3

2,82

.001

Reality Distortion

19.2

(9.19)

16.9

(9.17)

F=.78

1,55

.38

Disorganisation

4.5

(5.9)

10.6

(7.6)

F=10.5

1,55

.002Psychomotor Poverty7.8(7.9)11.6 (8.7)F=2.9 1,55 .095General Negative11.5 (7.5)18.7 (4.7)F=19.7 1,55 .001Slide31

Distinct profiles and poorer performance in schizophrenia/and disorganisation than controls/ppSlide32

Parallel non-flat profiles and poorer performance in chronic schizophrenia (and FE) compared to controlsSlide33
Slide34
Slide35
Slide36

Study 1 Conclusions

Schizophrenia - characterised by a single executive profile that reflects the make up of symptoms (psychomotor poverty / disorganisation) but not chronicity

Parallel but attenuated profile at first episode due to incorporation of those with intact function

Disorganisation - broad impairment profile incorporating planning and working memory

Psychomotor poverty - particularly impaired response initiation

Predictive power of either symptoms or cognition on outcome is short lived but stable symptom-cognition markers should be targets of intervention Slide37

Study 2

Schizophrenia - characterised by a single executive profile that reflects the make up of symptoms (psychomotor poverty / disorganisation) but not chronicity

Parallel but attenuated profile at first episode due to incorporation of those with intact function

Disorganisation - broad impairment profile incorporating planning and working memory

Psychomotor poverty - particularly impaired response initiation

Predictive power of either symptoms or cognition on outcome is short lived but stable symptom-cognition markers should be targets of intervention Slide38
Slide39

Negative Symptoms matter in the Leap from Cognition to Community Function in Schizophrenia:

Dr K Greenwood, Dr S Landau, Professor T Wykes

Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry,

London, UK.

e-mail: k.greenwood@iop.kcl.ac.uk

Implications for Intervention Slide40

IntroductionPeople with schizophrenia and negative symptoms have poor functioning (occupation, community and daily living skills)

Poor functioning is a source of distress for both people with schizophrenia and their familiesSlide41

Negative Symptoms associated with Community FunctionNegative symptoms (

flat affect, poverty of speech, apathy)

affect function:

Only Indirectly through link with Cognition

Independently

Slide42

Cognitive Impairments associated with Community Function

Executive function

predicts

Community function, Occupation, Daily living

Working Memory

predicts

Occupation

Global cognition

predicts

Daily living

Cognition is a stronger predictor than symptoms (Green 2000)Slide43

Cognitive Impairments associated with negative symptoms

Negative symptoms:

Linked theoretically with : Executive function and Working memory

Initiation/generation of strategies (Frith) Working memory (Goldman-Rakic)

Linked Empirically with:

Response Initiation (Franke et al. 1993)

Immediate/working memory (Pantelis et al 2001)

Focused/switching attention (Buchanan et al 1994) Initiation/working memory/strategy use (Greenwood 2000)

Slide44

Objective

To investigate specific relationships between negative symptoms, executive/working memory functions and community function and in particular to investigate the independent effect of negative symptoms

Reducing confounding of negative symptoms and low IQ

Using process approach and theoretically driven framework

Also using a novel measure to directly assess community functionSlide45

DesignCross sectional Comparison:

22 Healthy controls

28 Schizophrenia & negative symptoms balanced general

22 Schizophrenia & no negative symptoms cognitive impairment

Balancing

: Age, Sex, Premorbid IQ,

Predictors:

working memory, initation, inhibition, strategy, symptoms

Analysis:

Identify individual associations to function, interactions, and final regression modelSlide46

The measure A test of supermarket shopping Skills

Participants had to select 10 items from a

shopping list.

Measures were taken of:

accuracy (items correct)

Efficiency (time/route length)

Redundancy (no. aisles entered above minimum)

Strategy

(adapted from Test of Grocery Shopping Skills, Hamera and Brown 2000)Slide47

Research QuestionsIs directly assessed community function more impaired in people with schizophrenia and negative symptoms

(when directly assessed and without IQ confound)

Do specific executive processes predict specific community functions

(working memory-accuracy; strategy-strategy)

Do the associations differ in different symptom groups (use of theoretical rationale to investigate moderator effect of negative symptoms)Slide48

Subject Characteristics

Controls

Non-negative

Negative

Age (Years)  

36.23

35.28

35.07

Sex (M/F)

16/6

19/6

20.8

Premorbid IQ

89.77

91.12

91.36

RBMT Score

15.24

2-23

13.52

7 – 23

WCST Score

2.88

0 - 6

2.07

0 - 6

Total PANSS

50.88

35 - 76

62.11*

42 - 88

Slide49

Statistical Analyses

Association Analyses

(GLR – with

binomial, Poisson, normal distribution)*

Stage 1: Identify individual associations

(cognition x function)

Stage 2: Identify individual interactions

(cognition x symptom group x function)

Stage 3: Conduct final regression model

Premorbid IQ controlled

Slide50

Poorer strategy, working memory, initiation in negative group

0

1

2

3

4

control

non-neg

neg

Spatial Strategy Score

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

control

non-neg

neg

Verbal working memory

score

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

control

non-neg

neg

Verbal fluency initiationSlide51

Community function: Poorer accuracy, efficiency and strategy in negative group

Correct lowest price

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

control

non-neg

neg

Time Taken

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

control

non-neg

neg

Time taken

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

control

non-neg

neg

Aisles above MinimumSlide52

The results

Some cross group predicted associations between cognition and function (e.g. accuracy and strategy, efficiency and working memory)

Some executive-function associations

only

with negative symptoms

(working memory and accuracy, IQ and efficiency)

Not

just because of poor general cognition and

Not

a threshold effect but a true interactionSlide53

Executive & premorbid factors associated with community functionWorking memory associated with all function measures

(p = .01- < .001)

Strategy associated with strategy measures and route length

(p = .04- < .001)

Initiation associated with correct items, efficiency and strategy

(p = .02 - <.001)

Premorbid IQ associated with most measures

(p = 0.04-<0.001)Slide54

Independent cognition to community function associations are present only for specific groupsIn Negative group

Working memory associated with size accuracy

price accuracy

Verbal fluency associated with aisles above minimum

Premorbid IQ associated with correct items

time

In Controls

Working memory associated with aisle strategy

Verbal fluency associated with aisles above minimumSlide55

Conclusion so far…

Community functions are more impaired in schizophrenia with negative symptoms

even

compared to a group with equivalent general cognitive function

Executive functions associated with community function

only

in negative not non-negative schizophreniaSlide56

Negative symptoms moderate the association between impaired executive and community functions

No significant interaction of working memory severity factor within negative group

Moderating effect is not a cognitive threshold effect

Slide57

A synergistic cognition-symptom interaction predicts community function: A working memory model

Core Working Memory

Negative Symptoms

Community

Function

Ability

Domain Specific WM

CF exp.Slide58

Research Question - 2Do cognition or symptoms predict changes in community function when investigated longitudinally?

Slide59

Design - 2Longitudinal follow-up of shopping function

(n=43)

:

Comparing baseline (t1) to 6 months (t3)

Broader range Demographics, Cognition, Symptoms and functionSlide60

Influences on recovery

Differences in baseline measures between improvers (n=21) and non-improvers (n=22)

initial community function

(p <.001)

self-esteem

(p = 0.026)

working memory

(p=0.047)

Independent predictors of improvement on

Initial community function

(p = 0.004)

Self esteem

(p <0.001)

Working memory

(p = 0.088)Slide61

A synergistic cognition-symptom interaction predicts community function: A working memory model

Core Working Memory

Negative Symptoms

Community

Function

Ability

Domain Specific WM

CF Level

Self esteemSlide62

The design III: the relationship of SST to other functions

Cross sectional comparison of standardised shopping function to other function measures

(n=53)

:

Accuracy correlated with social behaviour (SBS) (r = -0.4 p = 0.001) but not level of independence in day care, number of activities or self-reported shopping activities

Efficiency correlated with level of independence in day care and independence in handling money (Spearman’s rho = -0.4 p = 0.005 and -0.3 p = 0.047) but not with social behaviour, number of activities or other self-reported shopping activities

The ability to shop accurately seems linked to the appropriateness of other social behaviours and the ability to shop efficiently seems linked to other measures of independence in function. Shopping function is unrelated to activity levels in shopping or other behaviours.Slide63

ImplicationsSynergistic interaction between negative symptoms and working memory impairments may contribute to progressively poorer community function

Remediation programmes that employ CBT/ CRT to target negative symptoms/ low self esteem AND domain specific cognition/working memory may break the reciprocal link, enhance generalisation and improve functional outcome Slide64
Slide65

Why consider a VR assessment of function?

Most commonly used measures are the GAF and employment status (recent review Greenwood et al. unpublished data)

Rehabilitation may be maximised by identifying cognitive targets for intervention through refined assessment (Greenwood et al. 2005)

But few brief direct standardised assessments (McKibbin et al. 2004)

Need for brief, easily administered community function assessments in schizophrenia,

validated against real life functions and underlying cognitive processesSlide66

The Use of Virtual Reality in Assessment and Intervention

VR apartment for medication management and adherence

VR functional skills assessment for social competence

VR avatar for assessment of social approach and anxiety

VR street, tube train and library for understanding thinking patterns underpinning to psychosis

VR Park and Maze for real world navigation (allocentric and egocentric memory)

VR maze for real world sensory integration in working memory

VR supermarket to assess executive function in different clinical groups

BUT no studies in schizophrenia have compared RL and VR performance on same task and some suggest differential performance in VR dependent on environment and associated cognitive processes

Freeman et al. 2003;2005; Jang et al. 2005; Baker et al 2006; Sorkin et al. 2006; 2008; Kurtz et al. 2007; Ku et al. 2007; Weniger et al 2008; Kim et al. 2008; Park et al. 2009; Zanyi et al. 2009; Josman et al. 2009; Landgraf et al. 2010

Slide67

The research questions1. Does performance in VR relate to the same in RL?

2. Do they share common or distinct cognitive processes?

3. Do these processes differ in different symptom groups?Slide68

Community Function Measure

Supermarket Shopping Task

(adapted from TOGSS: Hamera and Brown, 2000)

Virtual Reality Shopping Task

presented on flat screen computer with joystick

(RG Morris et al.)

In each task p

articipants had to select 10 items from a shopping list. Measures were taken of:

accuracy

(items correct)

time

redundancy

(no. aisles entered above minimum)Slide69

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Cognitive measures Memory and Working Memory

Visual Reproduction and Letter-Number Span

Executive function

BADS- key search & Verbal fluency

Social Cognition

Intention Inference Test (Sarfarti et al. 1997)

(IQ NART-R and WASI also assessed)Slide80

Participant Demographics

Participants (n=43)

Mean (n)

s.d.

range

Age (Years)  

39.5

11.9

21-63

Sex (M/F)

23/21

-

-

PANNS positive

14.6

6.5

7 – 28

PANSS negative

13.4

5.5

8-27

PANSS total

57.8

18.6

32-103Slide81

Participant Cognition

Participants (n=43)

Mean (n)

s.d.

range

Premorbid IQ

103.6

11.9

74-129

mean scaled score

(WASI)

9.2

3.3

3-16

Verbal Fluency

33.2

12.2

8-62

Strategy (BADS KS)

2.0

1.1

0-4

Working Memory (L-N)

8.3

3.3

2-16

Spatial Memory (Vis Rep)

6.3

4.7

0-17

Social Cognition

(comic strip

20.2

5.8

5-27Slide82

Does performance in VR relate to the same in RL?

RL accuracy

RL time

RL aisles

VR accuracy

VR time

VR aisles

RL accuracy

\

-.21 p=.20

-.18 p=.27

.30 p=.05

-.18 p=.25

-.08 p=.61

RL time

\

.69 p<.001

-.58 p<.001

.35 p=.02

.45 p= .003

RL aisles

\

-.42 p=.006

.65 p<.001

.75 p<.001

VR accuracy

\

-.26 p=.087

-.21 p=.19

VR time

\

.81 p<.001

VR aisles

\

*Significance remained (except trend for RL/VR accuracy) when IQ controlled

**No correlations with symptom measuresSlide83

Does performance in VR relate to the same in RL?

Accuracy

Aisles

*

*Slide84

Do

RL

and

VR

shopping share the same cognitive underpinnings?

Accuracy

Time

Efficiency

Verbal Fluency

Verbal Fluency

Verbal Fluency

Verbal Fluency

Working Memory

Strategy

Spatial Memory

Social Cognition

R=0.35 p=0.02

R=0.29 p=0.06

R=-0.26 p=0.09

R=0.29 p=0.058

R=-0.27 p=0.08

R=-0.32 p=0.05Slide85

Do Cognitive underpinnings of

RL

and

VR

differ in Negative symptom group

Accuracy

Time

Efficiency

Verbal Fluency

Verbal Fluency

Verbal Fluency

Verbal Fluency

Working Memory

Strategy

Spatial Memory

Social Cognition

R=0.47 p=0.04*

R=0.57 p=0.013

R=-0.52 p=0.02

R=0.47 p=0.05*Slide86

Do Cognitive underpinnings of

RL

and

VR

differ in Negative symptom group

Accuracy

Time

Efficiency

Verbal Fluency

Verbal Fluency

Verbal Fluency

Verbal Fluency

Working Memory

Strategy

Spatial Memory

Social Cognition

R=0.47 p=0.04*

R=0.57 p=0.013

R=-0.52 p=0.02

R=0.47 p=0.05*Slide87

Conclusions

Does performance in VR relate to the same in RL?

Yes

2. Do they share common or distinct cognitive processes?

Some shared (WM and strategy) but some distinct underlying cognitive processes

3. Do these processes differ in different symptom groups?

Some different and some similar cognitive underpinnings, greater overlap of VR and RL and stronger correlations in Negative symptom sub-group

Particular role for Social Cognition in RL where the social environment is more important (and in VR with negative symptoms where avatars treated as real) and for spatial memory in VRSlide88

Conclusions and Limitations

VR may be seen as an intermediate assessment between cognition and RL but care should be taken in considering the nature of the VR environment, the underlying cognitive processes, and the clinical presentation of the client group

Risk of type 1 errors with current comparatively small sample

Participants had a wide range of cognitive performance with mean cognitive function largely in the average range and with mild-moderate negative symptoms.

A greater contribution of cognition to community function may occur when cognition is impaired and symptoms greater

(Greenwood, Landau & Wykes 2005)

Future study will consider the validity of VR assessments of community function within a cognitively impaired sample for whom interventions are developed

Slide89

Executive function

A variety of fractionated cognitive processes concerned with the control, organisation and sequencing of higher cognition.

27-46% of people with schizophrenia have selective ‘executive’ profiles and 54-90% have at least one executive impairment (Johnson-Selfridge and Zalewski, 2001; Kremen et al. 2004; Chan et al. 2006a & b). Executive dysfunction is associated with poor social outcome (Kopelowicz et al. 2005, Laes and Sponheim 2006) . In studies of single symptoms, both syndromes have been associated with impaired verbal initiation and working memory and disorganisation also with attention, inhibition, discourse planning and monitoring (Liddle and Morris 1991; Hoffman et al. 1986; Pantelis et al 2001). First episode schizophrenia shows executive dysfunction at this early stage, with some degree of clinical heterogeneity (Joyce et al. 2005; 2007; Chan et al 2006b), but less impairment than is found in chronic schizophrenia (Saykin et al. 1994; Chan et al 2006b). Profiles have varied between studies, with parallel flat profiles of diffuse general impairment, parallel non-flat profiles with selective impairments, and selective impairments specific to chronic schizophrenia (Saykin et al. 1994, Blanchard and Neale 1994; Albus et al. 1996; Chan et al. 2006 a & b). These variations might result from studies that collapse test scores across broad domains. Slide90

Frith

Disorganisation symptoms arise from impaired inhibition of habitual responses when plans must be constructed and implemented using working memory, whilst psychomotor poverty results from deficits in the initiation of activities due to impaired initiation of plans. Slide91

Conclusions

Theoretical understanding of function can provide target cognitive processes for remediation

Individual approach is important because of complex relationship between symptoms, cognition and function

Remediation should link to day-to-day function ti improve outcome