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Failures of metacognition and lack of insight in neuropsychiatric disorders.
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Lack of insight or unawareness of illness are the hallmarks of many psychiatric disorders, especially schizophrenia (SCZ) and other psychoses and could be conceived of as a failure in metacognition. Research in this area in the mental health field h as burgeoned with the development and widespread use of standard assessment instruments and the mapping out of the clinical and neuropsychological correlates of insight and its loss. There has been a growing appreciation of the multi-faceted nature of the concept and of the different 'objects' of insight, such as the general awareness that one is ill, to more specific metacognitive awareness of individual symptoms, impairments and performance. This in turn has led to the notion that insight may show modularity and may fractionate across different domains and disorders, supported by work that directly compares metacognition of memory deficits and illness awareness in patients with SCZ, Alzheimer's disease and brain injury. The focus of this paper will be on the varieties of metacognitive failure in psychiatry, particularly the psychoses. We explore cognitive models based on self-reflectiveness and their possible social and neurological bases, including data from structural and functional MRI. The medial frontal cortex appears to play an important role in self-appraisal in health and disease.
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“Deficits in metacognitive knowledge and awareness moreover are believed to lead to cognitive distortions (e.g., jumping to conclusions, attributional biases, theory of mind deficits) (60), dysfunctional beliefs and expectancies (associated with a low self-esteem and negative symptoms) (10, 95) and a lack of cognitive insight into those cognitive biases (96).”
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“On the other hand, evidence from human neuropsychology that first- and second-order behavioural performances are dissociable suggests that at least some degree of separate representation will be required to account for second-order behaviours [ 6 , 9 , 14 ].”
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“Together, their work suggests fractionation between different types of insight, such that insight into one aspect of pathology does not necessarily predict insight into another.”
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“This finding bolsters previous evidence for the notion that metacognitive skill in one domain may not necessarily translate to another (David et al., 2012; Metcalfe et al., 2012; Pannu & Kaszniak, 2005; Schnyer et al., 2004).”
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“…about other emotional states), whether affective metacognition can be trained, and whether and how it is related to interoceptive states (Garfinkel & Critchley, 2016; L. F. Barrett & Simmons, 2015; Seth, 2013), mental health, and clinical insight (David, Bedford, Wiffen, & Gilleen, 2012).”
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“Insight is a multidimensional phenomenon which implies several facets at least partially independent from each other (David et al., 2012; Orfei et al., 2008).”
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“The current study was motivated by the view that the major limitation of previous studies on the subject (for a further review, see David et al., 2012) stems from their failure to address deficits at a metacognitive level of functioning.”
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The relationship between jumping to conclusions and neuropsychological functioning in schizophrenia
Krężołek, M., Pionke‐Ubych, R., Banaszak, B., Kokoszka, A., & Gawęda, Ł. (2019) · Psychiatry Research · doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2019.01.035 · Cited by 35
Walvoort, S. J. W., van der Heijden, P. T., Kessels, R. P. C., & Egger, J. I. M. (2016) · Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment · doi:10.2147/ndt.s104442 · Cited by 27
“Impaired illness insight can be regarded as a continuum ranging from total denial of the disease to more subtle metacognitive awareness deficits.(11) Illness insight comprises of awareness of illness, the capacity to view symptoms of the disease as pathological, and treatment adherence.”
InfluentialSymptom attribution and frontal cortical thickness in first‐episode schizophrenia
Asmal, L., du Plessis, S., Vink, M., Chiliza, B., Kilian, S., & Emsley, R. A. (2016) · Early Intervention in Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/eip.12358 · Cited by 27
“This is in keeping with the findings of our study and supports the hypothesis that symptom attribution is metacognitive in nature.(42) Although it is argued that distinct neurobiological substrates underlie the different insight dimensions,(9) there may be shared neuroanatomical and clinical elements between the dimen…”
BackgroundResultWalvoort, S. J. W., van der Heijden, P. T., Wester, A. J., Kessels, R. P. C., & Egger, J. I. M. (2016) · Psychiatry Research · doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2016.08.007 · Cited by 25
Bègue, I., Vaessen, M. J., Hofmeister, J., Pereira, M., Schwartz, S., & Vuilleumier, P. O. (2018) · Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · doi:10.1093/scan/nsy102 · Cited by 25
“Moreover, deficits in metacognition are thought to contribute to failures in social cognition (and vice versa) in several neuropsychiatric disorders (David et al., 2012).”
BackgroundReddy, M. S. S. (2015) · Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine · doi:10.4103/0253-7176.162909 · Cited by 25
“[10] • Meta cognition impair ment: Impaired metarepresentation and impaired self-reflection (a component of Beck’s Cognitive Insight), relate lack of insight to the neuropsychological perspective.”
Cortical thickness and trait empathy in patients and people at high risk for alcohol use disorders
Schmidt, T., Roser, P., Ze, O., Juckel, G., Boris Suchan, A., & Thoma, P. (2017) · Psychopharmacology · doi:10.1007/s00213-017-4741-3 · Cited by 25
“Possibly, structural deficits in these regions lead to poorer insight and thus overestimation of one’s perspective taking skills, particularly given that impaired metacognition is common in AUD (David et al. 2012).”
BackgroundInsight and white matter fractional anisotropy in first-episode schizophrenia
Asmal, L., du Plessis, S., Vink, M., Fouche, J.-P., Chiliza, B., & Emsley, R. (2017) · Schizophrenia Research · doi:10.1016/j.schres.2016.11.005 · Cited by 24
Elowe, J., & Conus, P. (2016) · European Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.07.007 · Cited by 23
“Patients can present two types of deficit: an inability to reflect on their thought content and to control its flow (strategic metacognition) and a systematic bias in the attribution of beliefs to oneself (attributive metacognition) [41].”
BackgroundDigital Phenotyping in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Perspective
Nisenson, M., Lin, V., & Gansner, M. (2021) · Harvard Review of Psychiatry · doi:10.1097/hrp.0000000000000310 · Cited by 23
“In the near future, these digital markers could be validated for detection of relapse or recovery, providing a potential early-warning system to alert providers or family members to the patient’s decompensation.(26)”
BackgroundSoldatos, R. F., Cearns, M., Nielsen, M. Ø., Kollias, C. T., Xenaki, L., Stefanatou, P., Ralli, I., Dimitrakopoulos, S., Hatzimanolis, A., Kosteletos, I., et al. (2021) · Schizophrenia Bulletin · doi:10.1093/schbul/sbab107 · Cited by 22
Camp, L. S. C. V., Sabbe, B., & Oldenburg, J. F. E. (2019) · Comprehensive Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.comppsych.2019.06.001 · Cited by 23
Revisiting Poor Insight into Illness in Anorexia Nervosa
Arbel, R., Latzer, Y., & Koren, D. (2014) · Journal of Psychiatric Practice · doi:10.1097/01.pra.0000445243.00683.30 · Cited by 21
Pijnenborg, G. H. M., de Vos, A. E., Timmerman, M. E., van der Gaag, M., Sportel, B. E., Arends, J., Koopmans, E. M., van der Meer, L., & Aleman, A. (2018) · Schizophrenia Research · doi:10.1016/j.schres.2018.10.018 · Cited by 21
“Although literature on the relationship between cognitive insight and clinical insight is inconsistent (David et al., 2012), hypo-activation in brain areas traditionally associated with self-reflection was found in relation to both poor clinical and poor cognitive insight (Van Der Meer et al.”
ResultExploring the effects of cognitive remediation on metacognition in people with schizophrenia
Cella, M., Edwards, C., Swan, S., Elliot, K., Reeder, C., & Wykes, T. (2019) · Journal of Experimental Psychopathology · doi:10.1177/2043808719826846 · Cited by 19
Kumar, R., Chhikara, B. S., Gulia, K., & Chhillar, M. (2021) · Nanotheranostics · doi:10.7150/ntno.49619 · Cited by 20
“Such complications make it even more complicated [140].”
Confidence at the limits of human nested cognition
Recht, S., Jovanović, L., Mamassian, P., & Balsdon, T. (2022) · Neuroscience of Consciousness · doi:10.1093/nc/niac014 · Cited by 20
Self-reflection and set-shifting mediate awareness in cognitively preserved schizophrenia patients
Gilleen, J., David, A. S., & Greenwood, K. (2016) · Cognitive Neuropsychiatry · doi:10.1080/13546805.2016.1167031 · Cited by 24
Foffani, G. (2023) · PNAS Nexus · doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad442 · Cited by 19
“Nevertheless, the authors themselves refer to their results as preliminary (82), indicating the need for further studies on lucid dreaming in schizophrenia/psychosis and on the multifaceted relationships between insight and metacognition in health and disease (83).”
ResultThe denial of aggression in violent patients with schizophrenia
KRAKOWSKI, M. I., & Czobor, P. (2012) · Schizophrenia Research · doi:10.1016/j.schres.2012.08.037 · Cited by 19
Béland, S., & Lepage, M. (2017) · Psychiatry Research · doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2017.09.082 · Cited by 21
Davies, G., Rae, C. L., Garfinkel, S. N., Seth, A. K., Medford, N., Critchley, H., & Greenwood, K. (2018) · Cognitive Neuropsychiatry · doi:10.1080/13546805.2018.1444597 · Cited by 19
Neural Substrate for Metacognitive Accuracy of Tactile Working Memory
Gogulski, J., Zetter, R., Nyrhinen, M., Pertovaara, A., & Carlson, S. (2017) · Cerebral Cortex · doi:10.1093/cercor/bhx219 · Cited by 21
Moeller, S. J., Hanley, A. W., & Garland, E. L. (2019) · Psychological Medicine · doi:10.1017/s0033291719000461 · Cited by 18
“, 2019) and in other psychopathologies such as schizophrenia (Keefe et al., 2006; van der Meer et al., 2010; David et al., 2012; Lysaker et al., 2018).”
BackgroundMethodGuillén-Font, M. A., Cervera, M., Puigoriol, E., Boreu, Q. F., Arrufat, F. X., & Serra, M. (2021) · Journal of Psychiatric Practice · doi:10.1097/pra.0000000000000580 · Cited by 23
A bivariate logistic regression model based on latent variables
Kristensen, S. B., & Bibby, B. M. (2020) · Statistics in Medicine · doi:10.1002/sim.8587 · Cited by 18
Camp, L. S. C. V., Oldenburg, J. F. E., & Sabbe, B. (2016) · Cognitive Neuropsychiatry · doi:10.1080/13546805.2015.1137214 · Cited by 17
Association of neurocognitive deficits and insight in schizophrenia
Grover, S., Sahoo, S., Nehra, R., Chakrabarti, S., & Avasthi, A. (2018) · Asian Journal of Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.ajp.2018.07.001 · Cited by 17
Metacognitive Computations for Information Search: Confidence in ControlPreprint
Schulz, L., Fleming, S. M., & Dayan, P. (2021) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2021.03.01.433342 · Cited by 18
“…Ryu, Golfi-nos, & Blackmon, 2014; Goldstein et al., 2009; Per-saud, McLeod, & Cowey, 2007; Shimamura & Squire, 1986) and psychological disorders (David et al., 2012; Hoven et al., 2019; Rouault et al., 2018) as well as aging (Palmer, David, & Fleming, 2014; Weil et al., 2013) specifically…”
Poyraz, B. Ç., Arıkan, M. K., Poyraz, C. A., Turan, Ş., Kani, A. S., Aydin, E. T., & İnce, E. (2016) · Nordic Journal of Psychiatry · doi:10.1080/08039488.2016.1178328 · Cited by 16
Multitasking costs on metacognition in a triple-task paradigm
Konishi, M., Berberian, B., de Gardelle, V., & Sackur, J. (2021) · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review · doi:10.3758/s13423-021-01967-0 · Cited by 16
Anxiety Disorders: The Relationship between Insight and Metacognition
Halaj, A., Konstantakopoulos, G., Ghaemi, S. N., & David, A. S. (2024) · Psychopathology · doi:10.1159/000538096 · Cited by 17
“In contrast to the more clearly de fi ned phenomena observed in psychosis such as abnormal experiences and dysfunctional behaviors, where the connection between metacognition and insight is more evident [8, 9], understanding insight into anxiety has unique challenges [10].”
Remmert, N., Schmidt, K. M. B., Mussel, P., Hagel, M. L., & Eid, M. (2022) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0269428 · Cited by 27
“This conceptual classification of insight is defined to be a meta-cognitive process [26] and an aspect of self-knowledge involving information about defense mechanisms and coping strategies [27].”
BackgroundClinical insight in first episode psychosis: the role of metacognition
Wright, A. C., Lysaker, P. H., Fowler, D. G., & Greenwood, K. (2021) · Journal of Mental Health · doi:10.1080/09638237.2021.1922629 · Cited by 14
“There was a specific association between metacognitive ability and self-reflectiveness subscale of the cognitive insight measure (BCIS), supporting previous studies (David et al., 2012; Gilleen et al., 2016).”
Result
Metadata
- Authors
- David, A. S., Bedford, N., Wiffen, B., & Gilleen, J.
- Affiliations
- King's College London (GB)
- Section of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF, UK
- Venue
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 2012-05-19
- Volume
- 367
- Issue
- 1594
- Pages
- 1379-1390
- ISSN
- 0962-8436 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-2970
- PMC
- PMC3318769
- OpenAlex
- W2133743374
- Cited by
- 227
- References
- 110
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 18 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 17 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 12.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2014-01-19)
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NF-SI-0510-10129)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Keywords
- metacognition, insight, anosognosia, schizophrenia, psychosis, neuropsychiatric disorders, disease awareness, self-reflection, medial frontal cortex, self-assessment, memory impairment, Alzheimer's disease, brain injury, functional MRI, structural MRI
- MeSH terms
- Cognition Disorders, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Models, Neurological
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