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Association between neurological soft signs, temperament and character in patients with schizophrenia and non-psychotic relatives
The heritability of schizophrenia and most personality traits has been well established, but the role of personality in susceptibility to schizophrenia remains uncertain. The aim of this study was to test for an association between personality traits and Neurological Soft Signs (NSS), a well-known b...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4860298/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27168955 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1651 |
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author | Galindo, Liliana Pastoriza, Francisco Bergé, Daniel Mané, Anna Picado, Marisol Bulbena, Antonio Robledo, Patricia Pérez, Victor Vilarroya, Oscar Cloninger, Claude Robert |
author_facet | Galindo, Liliana Pastoriza, Francisco Bergé, Daniel Mané, Anna Picado, Marisol Bulbena, Antonio Robledo, Patricia Pérez, Victor Vilarroya, Oscar Cloninger, Claude Robert |
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description | The heritability of schizophrenia and most personality traits has been well established, but the role of personality in susceptibility to schizophrenia remains uncertain. The aim of this study was to test for an association between personality traits and Neurological Soft Signs (NSS), a well-known biological marker of schizophrenia, in non-psychotic relatives of patients with schizophrenia. For this purpose, we evaluated the NSS scale and personality measured by the Temperament and Character inventory (TCI-R) in three groups of subjects: 29 patients with schizophrenia, 24 unaffected relatives and 37 controls. The results showed that patients with schizophrenia were more asocial (higher harm avoidance and lower reward dependence), more perseverative (higher persistence), and more schizotypal (lower self-directedness and cooperativeness, higher self-transcendence). The unaffected relatives showed higher harm avoidance, lower self-directedness and cooperativeness than the healthy controls. Higher NSS scores and sub-scores were found in patients and non-psychotic relatives compared with the controls. Among all the patients, total NSS scores were positively correlated with harm avoidance but negatively correlated with novelty seeking and persistence. Total NSS were also correlated with low scores on self-directedness and cooperativeness, which are indicators of personality disorder. Our results show that susceptibility to NSS and to schizophrenia are both related to individual differences in the temperament and character features in non-psychotic relatives of patients with schizophrenia. High harm avoidance, low persistence, low self-directedness and low cooperativeness contribute to both the risk of NSS and schizophrenia. These findings highlight the value of using both assessments to study high risk populations. |
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spelling | pubmed-48602982016-05-10 Association between neurological soft signs, temperament and character in patients with schizophrenia and non-psychotic relatives Galindo, Liliana Pastoriza, Francisco Bergé, Daniel Mané, Anna Picado, Marisol Bulbena, Antonio Robledo, Patricia Pérez, Victor Vilarroya, Oscar Cloninger, Claude Robert PeerJ Psychiatry and Psychology The heritability of schizophrenia and most personality traits has been well established, but the role of personality in susceptibility to schizophrenia remains uncertain. The aim of this study was to test for an association between personality traits and Neurological Soft Signs (NSS), a well-known biological marker of schizophrenia, in non-psychotic relatives of patients with schizophrenia. For this purpose, we evaluated the NSS scale and personality measured by the Temperament and Character inventory (TCI-R) in three groups of subjects: 29 patients with schizophrenia, 24 unaffected relatives and 37 controls. The results showed that patients with schizophrenia were more asocial (higher harm avoidance and lower reward dependence), more perseverative (higher persistence), and more schizotypal (lower self-directedness and cooperativeness, higher self-transcendence). The unaffected relatives showed higher harm avoidance, lower self-directedness and cooperativeness than the healthy controls. Higher NSS scores and sub-scores were found in patients and non-psychotic relatives compared with the controls. Among all the patients, total NSS scores were positively correlated with harm avoidance but negatively correlated with novelty seeking and persistence. Total NSS were also correlated with low scores on self-directedness and cooperativeness, which are indicators of personality disorder. Our results show that susceptibility to NSS and to schizophrenia are both related to individual differences in the temperament and character features in non-psychotic relatives of patients with schizophrenia. High harm avoidance, low persistence, low self-directedness and low cooperativeness contribute to both the risk of NSS and schizophrenia. These findings highlight the value of using both assessments to study high risk populations. PeerJ Inc. 2016-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4860298/ /pubmed/27168955 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1651 Text en ©2016 Galindo et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry and Psychology Galindo, Liliana Pastoriza, Francisco Bergé, Daniel Mané, Anna Picado, Marisol Bulbena, Antonio Robledo, Patricia Pérez, Victor Vilarroya, Oscar Cloninger, Claude Robert Association between neurological soft signs, temperament and character in patients with schizophrenia and non-psychotic relatives |
title | Association between neurological soft signs, temperament and character in patients with schizophrenia and non-psychotic relatives |
title_full | Association between neurological soft signs, temperament and character in patients with schizophrenia and non-psychotic relatives |
title_fullStr | Association between neurological soft signs, temperament and character in patients with schizophrenia and non-psychotic relatives |
title_full_unstemmed | Association between neurological soft signs, temperament and character in patients with schizophrenia and non-psychotic relatives |
title_short | Association between neurological soft signs, temperament and character in patients with schizophrenia and non-psychotic relatives |
title_sort | association between neurological soft signs, temperament and character in patients with schizophrenia and non-psychotic relatives |
topic | Psychiatry and Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4860298/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27168955 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1651 |
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