Psicothema was founded in Asturias (northern Spain) in 1989, and is published jointly by the Psychology Faculty of the University of Oviedo and the Psychological Association of the Principality of Asturias (Colegio Oficial de Psicología del Principado de Asturias).
We currently publish four issues per year, which accounts for some 100 articles annually. We admit work from both the basic and applied research fields, and from all areas of Psychology, all manuscripts being anonymously reviewed prior to publication.
Psicothema, 2010. Vol. Vol. 22 (nº 4). 664-668
José Luis Rubio Gómez*,**, Lauren Hernández Bellido*,**, Miguel Ruiz Veguilla**, Maite Ferrín Erdozaín**,***, Alex Pereda Baños**** and Emilio Gómez Milán*
* Universidad de Granada, ** Complejo Hospitalario de Jaén, *** Institute of Psychiatry (London) and **** Parc Científico de Barcelona
Several studies have researched the attentional functioning of schizophrenic patients by means of the Attentional Network Test. The present work reviews these studies and assesses the clinical relevance of their results. Both the reviewed data and our own results suggest that the Attentional Network Test does not provide a clear-cut discrimination of the attentional profile of schizophrenic patients from a clinical point of view. However, after classifying patients according to their psychotic symptoms, it became evident that positive syndrome patients are less efficient at tasks that tap the orientation network.
Ejecución en el test de las redes atencionales en pacientes esquizofrénicos. Varios estudios han investigado el sistema atencional de pacientes esquizofrénicos usando el test de las redes atencionales. En este trabajo se revisan estos estudios y se evalúa la relevancia clínica de sus resultados. Los resultados de la revisión y del presente trabajo sugieren que el test de las redes atencionales no discrimina claramente el perfil atencional de los pacientes esquizofrénicos desde un punto de vista clínico. No obstante, tras subdividir a los pacientes en función de su sintomatología psicótica se evidenció que los pacientes con síndrome positivo mostraron una menor eficiencia en la red de orientación.