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PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
Volume 323, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115184
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Psychosis; Cannabis use; Childhood trauma; Environment; Emotion recognition
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This study investigated the association between environmental exposure score (ES-SCZ) and cognitive impairments in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD), their unaffected siblings, and healthy controls. The results showed that ES-SCZ was not associated with cognitive domains in SSD patients, but it was negatively associated with cognition in siblings and healthy controls, and positively associated with facial affect recognition in siblings.
Background: People with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) frequently present cognitive impairments. Here, we investigated whether the exposome score for schizophrenia (ES-SCZ) -a cumulative environmental exposure score -was associated with impairments of neurocognition, social cognition, and perception in patients with SSD, their unaffected siblings, and healthy controls. Methods: This cross-sectional sample consisted of 1200 patients, 1371 siblings, and 1564 healthy controls. Neurocognition, social cognition, and perception were assesed using a short version of the Wechsler Adult In-telligence Scale-Third Edition (WAIS-III), the Degraded Facial Affect Recognition Task (DFAR), and the Benton Facial Recognition Test (BFR), respectively. Regression models were used to analyze the association between ES-SCZ and cognitive domains in each group.Results: There were no statistically significant associations between ES-SCZ and cognitive domains in SSD. ES-SCZ was negatively associated with T-score of cognition in siblings (B=-0.40, 95% CI-0.76 to-0.03) and healthy controls (B=-0.63, 95% CI-1.06 to-0.21). Additionally, ES-SCZ was positively associated with DFAR-total in siblings (B=0.83, 95% CI 0.26 to 1.40). Sensitivity analyses excluding cannabis use history from ES-SCZ largely confirmed the main findings.Conclusions: Longitudinal cohorts may elucidate how environmental exposures influence the onset and course of cognitive impairments in trans-syndromic psychosis spectrum.
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