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Introspective and Neurophysiological Measures of Mind Wandering in Schizophrenia.
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- The Relative Accuracy of Different Methods for Measuring Mind Wandering Subtypes: A Systematic Review.Brain and behavior · 2025Pooled it
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- Dynamic Evolution of EEG Complexity in Schizophrenia Across Cognitive Tasks.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Comparison of trait and state mind wandering among schizotypal, subclinically depressed, and control individuals.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Mutual information of multiple rhythms in schizophrenia.Brain structure & function · 2024Article
- The Relationships between Effortful Control, Mind Wandering, and Mobile Phone Addiction Based on Network Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Mental Pain Correlates with Mind Wandering, Self-Reflection, and Insight in Individuals with Psychotic Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Study.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Examining Neural Connectivity in Schizophrenia Using Task-Based EEG: A Graph Theory Approach.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Prefrontal tDCS is unable to modulate mind wandering propensity or underlying functional or effective brain connectivity.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- More than off-task: Increased freely-moving thought in ADHD.Consciousness and cognition · 2021Article
- Local Oscillatory Brain Dynamics of Mind Wandering in Schizophrenia.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Overcoming Rest-Task Divide-Abnormal Temporospatial Dynamics and Its Cognition in Schizophrenia.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2021Article
- Consciousness as a multidimensional phenomenon: implications for the assessment of disorders of consciousness.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2021Review
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Abstract
Patients with schizophrenia have often been considered to be "in their own world". However, this casual observation has not been proven by scientific evidence so far. This can be explained because scientific research has usually addressed cognition related to the processing of external stimuli, but only recently have efforts been made to explain thoughts, images and feelings not directly related to the external environment. This internally directed cognition has been called mind wandering. In this paper, we have explored mind wandering in schizophrenia under the hypothesis that a predominance of mind wandering would be a core dysfunction in this disorder. To this end, we collected verbal reports and measured electrophysiological signals from patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and matched healthy controls while they were presented with segments of films. The results showed that mind wandering was more frequent in patients than in controls. This higher frequency of mind wandering did not correlate with deficits in attentional, memory or executive functioning. In addition, mind wandering in patients was characterized by a different pattern of Electroencephalography (EEG) complexity in patients than in controls, leading to the suggestion that mind wandering in schizophrenia could be of a different nature. These findings could have relevant implications for the conceptualization of this severe mental disorder.
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