Neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia are likely to be less severe and less related to the disorder than previously thought

Even according to Kraepelin's observations more than one hundred years ago1, the term dementia praecox was an exaggeration, if not a misnomer. Not all of his patients showed signs of dementia, and a subgroup even recovered. Kraepelin also acknowledged that memory impairment, the core symptom of dementia, at times reflected lack of interest rather than faulty “impressibility of memory”. While the term was soon replaced by that of...