An open-access review in Translational Psychiatry by Amadeo et al (2022)
# Time in schizophrenia: a link between psychopathology, psychophysics and technology
It has been widely demonstrated that time processing is altered in patients with schizophrenia. This perspective review delves into such temporal deficit and highlights its link to low-level sensory alterations, which are often overlooked in rehabilitation protocols for psychosis. However, if temporal impairment at the sensory level is inherent to the disease, new interventions should focus on this dimension. Beyond more traditional types of intervention, here we review the most recent digital technologies for rehabilitation and the most promising ones for sensory training. The overall aim is to synthesise existing literature on time in schizophrenia linking psychopathology, psychophysics, and technology to help future developments.
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I downloaded a metronome app yesterday morning and set it to play a single bell ding every 15 seconds. After an hour of playing the periodic dings I felt very in contact with reality and very solid in my mind.
I’m into this form of therapy and training because it’s available here and now for very little cost and sometimes can have big benefits. I think there’s too much emphasis on CBT and psychotherapy and not enough emphasis on the mechanics of the brain and correcting these through simple sound therapy etc. BrainHQ cognitive therapy and binaural beats are another couple of things that had big benefits in my case.
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key schizophrenic symptoms such as thought disorder, thought insertion, auditory hallucinations, and passivity experiences may be described as disturbances of transcendental constitution of inner time consciousness or of the microstructure of temporality”.
Indeed, the representation of ourselves is stabilized within temporal windows and is experienced as being continuous in time.
They argued that difficulties in integrating sensory information in time may affect the self because of their impact upon our ability to create single and stable representations, which would cause an uninterrupted flow of sensory inputs.
The ability to integrate sensory information has been associated with the emergence of a sense of self [69, 70] and, even more interestingly, there is a link between multisensory disintegration and self-disorders [71]. For example, integrating sensory information typically perceived as independent can cause sensory overload, alterations in sensory filters and ambiguous perceptual identity, causing a feeling of living in an incoherent world [72].
In this regard, Martin et al. have recently proposed that deficits in what we refer to as timing of perception could be associated with minimal self-disturbances in schizophrenic individuals. They argued that difficulties in integrating sensory information in time may affect the self because of their impact upon our ability to create single and stable representations, which would cause an uninterrupted flow of sensory inputs.
What it thought insertion is a distortion in timing of perception?
I feel much more focused after listening to binaural beats for 20 minutes. YouTube binaural beats for focus and concentration.