Grasping the mechanisms of narratives' incoherence in schizophrenia: an analysis of the temporal structure of patients' life story.

摘要: Abstract Objective Life narratives of patients with schizophrenia are characterized by impaired coherence so that the listener has often difficulties to grasp life trajectory patients. In order better understand what causes this reduced temporal coherence, we investigated structure patients' through different narrative elements (elaboration beginnings and endings, local indicators deviations from a linear order), across two complementary studies. Methods were collected means methods; free recall in study 1 more structured protocol, aiming at reducing cognitive task demands 2. All studies analyzed using same validated method. Results Both showed global is significantly ( p s.02). This mainly due their stronger tendency temporally deviate without marking deviation as such. We also observed significant correlations patient groups between executive dysfunction =.008) or higher (p Conclusions These results shed light on correlates incoherence highlight central role incoherence.