The study revealed feeling patterns in healthy adolescents and early-onc developing schizophrenia

People with schizophrenia have cognitive impairments, including sensory processing capabilities.
studies have shown that sensitivity to external sensory information abnormalities, i.e. slow or oversensitivity, may be a sign of psychotic symptoms and decreased cognitive function.
studies have looked more at the cognitive processes and neural mechanisms of sensory processing in patients with schizophrenia, and less on the relationship between the response sensitivity of sensory information and clinical symptoms.
, people with autism show similar feelings of retardation or allergies.
Given the high co-enrolment rates of the two types of neurodevelopmental disorders and the fact that schizophrenics exhibit autism-related traits, such as social communication disorders, it is important to further examine how the superimposing of schizophrenic and autism traits affects people's sensitivity to processing sensory information.
The Chen Chu overseas Chinese Research Group of the Mental Health Key Laboratory of the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences explored the sensitivity of the sensations of healthy adolescents (98) and patients with early onset schizophrenia (29) and examined their relationship with clinical symptoms and subclinical traits.
the study, all subjects completed the Adolescent Sensory Processing Ability Profile Scale, the Split Special Quality Scale, and the Autism Special Quality Scale.
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analysis showed that the higher the divisive trait, the greater the experience of abnormal sensation, whether in the health control group or the clinical group, and that the intensity of the correlation did not differ significantly between the two groups.
Researchers included interactions between schizophrenic traits and autism traits in regression analysis, and found that high autism traits further strengthened the positive correlation between split traits and abnormal sensory processing patterns, suggesting that the coexistence of schizophrenic traits and autism traits had an added effect on sensitivity to abnormal sensory responses.
the study initially clarified the sensory information processing mode of patients with early schizophrenia, which is helpful for researchers to better develop relevant perceptual intervention training for clinical treatment.
the research was published online online on Self-sensory responsiveness patterns in typically-developing and early-onset schizophrenia and adreniads: its relationship with schizotypal and autistic traits.
research has been funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Key Mental Health Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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