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Title: Late-life onset psychosis-like symptoms assessed in the Mild Behavioural Impairment framework are associated with impaired performance on the Stroop task
Authors: Creese, B
Gibbs, O
Moodie, E
Hampshire, A
Corbett, A
Ismail, Z
Keywords: mild behavioral impairment;psychosis;stroop;Cambridge Gambling Task;executive function
Issue Date: 24-May-2024
Publisher: In&Sight
Citation: Creese, B. et al. (2023) 'Late-life onset psychosis-like symptoms assessed in the Mild Behavioural Impairment framework are associated with impaired performance on the Stroop task', In&Vertebrate, (version 2), pp. 1 - 17. doi: 10.52732/EHBP8068.
Abstract: Late-life onset psychosis and milder delusion-like ideation are known risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia. The Mild Behavioural Impairment (MBI) framework was developed to capture specific psychotic-like symptoms relevant to dementia prognosis in older adults. This study aims to investigate the cognitive deficits associated with MBI-psychosis and their implications for understanding the underlying mechanisms and potential treatment targets. The study recruited participants between November 2021 and July 2022 from the PROTECT study registry. Participants completed the Cambridge Gambling Task, Stroop, Trail Making, Paired Associates Learning, Verbal Reasoning, Digit Span and Self-Ordered Search. Psychotic symptom status was assessed using the Mild Behavioural Impairment Checklist (MBI-C), with participants categorized as MBI-psychosis if they or their study partner reported any psychotic symptoms. Out of 2,109 eligible participants invited, 416 consented to participate. There were no significant differences in age, sex, education level, or mental health history between the MBI-psychosis and No Psychosis groups. Participants with MBI-psychosis exhibited significantly worse performance on the Stroop task (adjusted p=0.0007, Cohen’s d=0.37) compared to those without psychosis. There was also some evidence of impairment in verbal reasoning, though it did not reach significance after Bonferroni correction. No significant differences were found on other cognitive measures. This cross-sectional study provides insight into the cognitive deficits associated with MBI-psychosis. The finding of impaired Stroop task performance in individuals with MBI-psychosis is noteworthy, as this deficit is commonly observed in earlier-life major psychotic disorders. Further research is needed to explore the neural underpinnings of these deficits and to determine whether they represent early markers of neurodegenerative disease.
Description: Availability of material The data of this experiment can be found at https://doi.org/10.17633/rd.brunel.24442468 Supplementary Table 1 can be found at https://ins-inandpublish-prod.s3.fr-par.scw.cloud/papers/652519d3890bbf5b40a41e79/assets/Supplement_Table1_v2.xlsx Supplementary Table 2 can be found at https://ins-inandpublish-prod.s3.fr-par.scw.cloud/papers/652519d3890bbf5b40a41e79/assets/Supplement_Table2_v2.xlsx
A previous version of this preprint is available on 3 October 2023 at PsyArXiv Preprints, (preprint), pp. 1 - 12. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/c4vu3.
URI: https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/28203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52732/EHBP8068
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