COGNITION ACROSS THE PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER SPECTRUM: FROM MENTAL HEALTH TO CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS EDITED BY : Caroline Gurvich and Susan L. Rossell PUBLISHED IN : Frontiers in Psychiatry Frontiers Copyright Statement About Frontiers © Copyright 2007-2015 Frontiers Media SA. All rights reserved. Frontiers is more than just an open-access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a pioneering All content included on this site, approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly research such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, video/audio clips, is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people have an equal downloads, data compilations and software, is the property of or is opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. Frontiers provides immediate and licensed to Frontiers Media SA permanent online open access to all its publications, but this alone is not enough to (“Frontiers”) or its licensees and/or subcontractors. 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Rossell, Monash University Central Clinical School and The Alfred Hospital, Australia; Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Psychiatric symptoms are considered to be distributed along a continuum, from good mental health to a diagnosable psychiatric disorder. In the case of psychosis, subclinical psychotic experiences, which can include odd behaviours, strange speech, unusual perceptual experiences and social/emotional withdrawal, are often referred to as schizotypy. Research examining schizotypal traits in non-clinical populations is rapidly expanding. The exploration of schizotypy allows us to identify areas of overlap with psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia and related disorders) at genetic, biological, environmental and psychosocial levels, thus identifying putative risk factors, as well as exploring potentially protective factors. Schizotypy is also a valuable model for exploring cognition as performance is not confounded by issues often present in schizophrenia samples, such as long-term antipsychotic medication usage, social isolation, and recurrent hospitalizations. Investigating cognition is a particularly important area of research as cognitive symptoms in schizophrenia, such as impaired attention, reduced memory and difficulties with executive functions, are a core feature of schizophrenia and strongly related to quality of life and functional outcomes, yet generally respond poorly to current treatment options. The aim of this special Research Topic is to explore the relationship between cognition, schizotypy and the schizophrenia spectrum. The articles in this e-book draw on a variety of perspectives and represent an interesting array of opinions, reviews and empirical studies that begin to answer questions about the similarities and overlaps between schizotypy and schizophrenia spectrum disorders, contributing to our understanding of potential risk factors. Equally important is research that highlights differences between schizotypy and schizophrenia spectrum disorders that may enhance our understanding of potentially protective or adaptive features of schizotypy. Collectively, these articles highlight the exploratory potential of the study of schizotypy, particularly in relation to better understanding cognition across the schizophrenia spectrum. Citation: Caroline Gurvich and Susan L. Rossell, eds. (2015). Cognition across the psychiatric disorder spectrum: From mental health to clinical diagnosis. Lausanne: Frontiers Media. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88919-653-1 Frontiers in Psychiatry 2 August 2015 | Cognition across the psychiatric disorder spectrum Table of Contents 04 Editorial: Cognition across the psychiatric disorder spectrum: from mental health to clinical diagnosis Caroline Gurvich and Susan L. Rossell 07 The duality of schizotypy: is it both dimensional and categorical? Oliver John Mason 11 Methodological considerations in the recruitment and analysis of schizotypy samples Erica Neill 14 An overview of the association between schizotypy and dopamine Christine Mohr and Ulrich Ettinger 27 Psychotic-like experiences and their cognitive appraisal under short-term sensory deprivation Christina Daniel, Anna Lovatt and Oliver John Mason 35 Factor analysis demonstrates a common schizoidal phenotype within autistic and schizotypal tendency: implications for neuroscientific studies Talitha C. Ford and David P. Crewther 46 Schizotypal traits are associated with poorer executive functioning in healthy adults Stephanie Louise, Caroline Gurvich, Erica Neill, Eric J. Tan, Tamsyn E. Van Rheenen and Susan Rossell 53 Alcohol and relatively pure cannabis use, but not schizotypy, are associated with cognitive attenuations Daniela A. Herzig, David J. Nutt and Christine Mohr 62 Deficits in agency in schizophrenia, and additional deficits in body image, body schema, and internal timing, in passivity symptoms Kyran T. Graham, Mathew T. Martin-Iverson, Nicholas P. Holmes, Assen Jablensky and Flavie Waters 73 Neurophysiological correlates of configural face processing in schizotypy Rachel A. Batty, Andrew J. P. Francis, Hamish Innes-Brown, Nicole R. Joshua and Susan L. Rossell 84 A false-positive detection bias as a function of state and trait schizotypy in interaction with intelligence Phillip Grant, Mona Balser, Aisha Judith Leila Munk, Jens Linder and Juergen Hennig 91 Social connectedness across the psychosis spectrum: Current issues and future directions for interventions in loneliness Michelle H. Lim and John F. Gleeson Frontiers in Psychiatry 3 August 2015 | Cognition across the psychiatric disorder spectrum EDITORIAL published: 04 August 2015 doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00110 Editorial: Cognition across the psychiatric disorder spectrum: from mental health to clinical diagnosis Caroline Gurvich 1* and Susan L. Rossell 1,2 1 Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research