Resources and Links of Interest

Here are some resources and other publications you may be interested in. 

• BASIS:  The Blood Pressure Awareness and Insight Scale, Journal of Clinical Hypertension. 
     
• OASIS: Obesity Awareness and Insight Scale, Obesity Medicine. 
     
• DAS: The Diabetes Awareness and Insight Scale, Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews 
     
• The VAGUS insight into psychosis scale - self-report and clinician-rated versions, Psychiatry Research
  • http://www.vagusonline.com/
  • http://www.psy-journal.com/article/S0165-1781(14)00700-8/abstract
  • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25246410   
       
• Anosognosia Is an Independent Predictor of Conversion From Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease and Is Associated With Reduced Brain Metabolism, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29022655
  • http://www.psychiatrist.com/JCP/article/Pages/2017/v78n08/16m11367.aspx   
       
• Insight Into Illness and Cognition in Schizophrenia in Earlier and Later Life, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry:
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28297590
  • http://www.psychiatrist.com/JCP/article/Pages/2017/v78n04/v78n0404.aspx   
       
• Vestibular stimulation improves insight into illness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, Psychiatry Research.
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28237912
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178116315724?via%3Dihub
  • http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/827065   
       
• Insight into illness and its relationship to illness severity, cognition and estimated antipsychotic dopamine receptor occupancy in schizophrenia: An antipsychotic dose reduction study, Psychiatry Research. 
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28187335
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178116312811?via%3Dihub   
       
• Impaired insight into delusions predicts treatment outcome during a randomized controlled trial for Psychotic Depression (STOP-PD study), Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25919834
  • http://www.psychiatrist.com/jcp/article/Pages/2015/v76n04/v76n0406.aspx   
       
• Centre for Addicton and Mental Health (CAMH) - Water test studied for illness awareness 
  • http://www.camh.ca/en/research/news_and_publications/CAMH-Discovers/Summer%202014/Pages/Water-balance-test-increases-illness-awareness.aspx     
       
• A Novel Insight into Psychosis Scale for Use Across the Adult Late-Life Span, The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • http://www.ajgponline.org/article/S1064-7481%2813%2900540-X/abstract
  • http://www.ajgponline.org/article/S1064-7481%2813%2900540-X/pdf
      
• Illness denial in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: A function of left hemisphere dominance, Human Brain Mapping.
  • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25209949
  • http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.22624/abstract   
       
• Impaired insight into illness and cognitive insight in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: Resting state functional connectivity, Schizophrenia Research.
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4429527/
  • http://www.schres-journal.com/article/S0920-9964%2814%2900584-2/abstract   
       
• Frontotemporoparietal asymmetry and lack of illness awareness in schizophrenia, Human Brain Mapping.
  • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22213454
  • http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.21490/abstract  
       
• The effects of aging on insight into illness in schizophrenia: a review, International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
  • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25055980
  • http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gps.4154/abstract   
       
• Insight into illness in late-life schizophrenia: a function of illness severity and premorbid intellectual function, Schizophrenia Research.
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23972588
  • http://www.ajgponline.org/article/S1064-7481%2812%2900270-9/fulltext;
      

For more information, please contact Dr. Philip Gerretsen, MD, PhD, FRCPC at philgerretsen@yahoo.com or philip.gerretsen@camh.ca. 
  

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• Illness Awareness Scales
• Addiction Awareness Scales
• VAGUS Insight into Psychosis Scales (under construction)
• CAMH Brain Health Imaging Centre 
• Treating Conditions and Disorders

Contact information

Please send any inquiries or comments to Dr. Philip Gerretsen, MD, PhD, FRCPC at philgerretsen@yahoo.com and/or philip.gerretsen@camh.ca.