Journal of International Psychiatry

Schizophrenia is a heterogeneous clinical syndrome, its etiology is unknown. The disturbance of self is a core phenotypic marker of schizophrenia . Phenomenology and neurocognitive research found that there were abnormal in patients with schizophrenia in self-agency and self-ownership. The neurocognitive abnormal mainly include source monitoring deficits and aberrant salience,and there are some abnormal brain regions. In order to find the nature of schizophrenia,promote the diagnosis, prevention and early intervention,improve the course of the disease,improve patients’ prognosis,the exploration of phenomenology and neurocognitive in self-disturbance of schizophrenia is very important.

schizophrenia;self disturbance;phenomenology;neurocognition