Schizophrenia Research 

TL;DR: The 193 peer reviewed MRI studies reported in the current review span the period from 1988 to August, 2000 and have led to more definitive findings of brain abnormalities in schizophrenia than any other time period in the history of schizophrenia research.

TL;DR: Results from these studies reveal considerable support for longitudinal associations between cognition and community outcome in schizophrenia and demonstrate that cognitive assessment predict later functional outcome and provide a rationale for psychopharmacological interventions for cognitive deficits in schizophrenia.

TL;DR: Empirical evidence for cognitive performance dimensions in schizophrenia was evaluated and seven separable cognitive factors were replicable across studies and represent fundamental dimensions of cognitive deficit in schizophrenia: Speed of Processing, Attention/Vigilance, Working Memory, Verbal Learning and Memory, Visual Learning and memory, Reasoning and Problem Solving, and Verbal Comprehension.

TL;DR: The BACS was found to be as sensitive to cognitive impairment in patients with schizophrenia as a standard battery of tests that required over 2 h to administer and to be highly correlated with the standard battery composite scores in patients and healthy controls.

TL;DR: The notion that some patients with schizophrenia have difficulties with tasks requiring 'theory of mind' skills and that this deficiency is symptom specific is supported.