Factorial validity, measurement equivalence and cognitive performance of the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) between patients with first-episode psychosis and healthy volunteers

• Published in: Psychological medicine Vol. 45; no. 9; pp. 1919 - 1929
• Main Authors: Haring, L., Mõttus, R., Koch, K., Trei, M., Maron, E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.07.2015
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Antipsychotics; Attention - physiology; Automation; Case-Control Studies; Cognition; Cognition & reasoning; Cognition Disorders - physiopathology; Cognition Disorders - psychology; Cognitive ability; Executive Function - physiology; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Female; Healthy Volunteers; Humans; Male; Memory; Memory - physiology; Neuropsychological Tests; Neuropsychology; Original Articles; Patients; Principal Component Analysis; Psychosis; Psychotic Disorders - physiopathology; Psychotic Disorders - psychology; Psychotropic drugs; Reproducibility of Results; Schizophrenia; Young Adult; cognitive function; CANTAB; measurement invariance; first-episode psychosis

The purpose of this study was to use selected Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) tests to examine the dimensional structure of cognitive dysfunction in first episode of psychosis (FEP) patients compared with cognition in healthy subjects. A total of 109 FEP patients and 96...