Please feel free to browse below at some resources and other publications.

For more information, please contact:
Dr. Philip Gerretsen, MD, PhD, FRCPC
philgerretsen@yahoo.com; philip.gerretsen@camh.ca

Resources and Links of Interest:

A Measure of Illness Awareness in Alcohol Use Disorder-Alcohol Use Awareness and Insight Scale (AAS), Drug Alcohol Dependence :
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34340166/

A Measure to Assess Illness Awareness in Problem Gambling: Gambling Awareness and Insight Scale (GAS), Journal of Gambling Studies :
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34169396/

BASIS: The Blood Pressure Awareness and Insight Scale, Journal of Clinical Hypertension:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29524293

OASIS - Obesity Awareness and Insight Scale, Obesity Medicine:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451847618300046

DAS: The Diabetes Awareness and Insight Scale, Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1871402120300278

The VAGUS insight into psychosis scale - self-report and clinician-rated versions, Psychiatry Research:
http://www.vagusonline.com/
http://www.psy-journal.com/article/S0165-1781(14)00700-8/abstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25246410

Anosognosia Is an Independent Predictor of Conversion From Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease and Is Associated With Reduced Brain Metabolism, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29022655
http://www.psychiatrist.com/JCP/article/Pages/2017/v78n08/16m11367.aspx

Insight Into Illness and Cognition in Schizophrenia in Earlier and Later Life, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28297590
http://www.psychiatrist.com/JCP/article/Pages/2017/v78n04/v78n0404.aspx

Vestibular stimulation improves insight into illness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, Psychiatry Research:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28237912
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178116315724?via%3Dihub
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/827065

Insight into illness and its relationship to illness severity, cognition and estimated antipsychotic dopamine receptor occupancy in schizophrenia: An antipsychotic dose reduction study, Psychiatry Research:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28187335
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178116312811?via%3Dihub

Impaired insight into delusions predicts treatment outcome during a randomized controlled trial for Psychotic Depression (STOP-PD study), Journal of Clinical Psychiatry:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25919834
http://www.psychiatrist.com/jcp/article/Pages/2015/v76n04/v76n0406.aspx

Centre for Addicton and Mental Health (CAMH) - Water test studied for illness awareness:
http://www.camh.ca/en/research/news_and_publications/CAMH-Discovers/Summer%202014/Pages/Water-balance-test-increases-illness-awareness.aspx

A Novel Insight into Psychosis Scale for Use Across the Adult Late-Life Span, The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry:
http://www.ajgponline.org/article/S1064-7481%2813%2900540-X/abstract
http://www.ajgponline.org/article/S1064-7481%2813%2900540-X/pdf

Illness denial in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: A function of left hemisphere dominance, Human Brain Mapping:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25209949
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.22624/abstract

Impaired insight into illness and cognitive insight in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: Resting state functional connectivity, Schizophrenia Research:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4429527/
http://www.schres-journal.com/article/S0920-9964%2814%2900584-2/abstract

Frontotemporoparietal asymmetry and lack of illness awareness in schizophrenia, Human Brain Mapping:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22213454
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.21490/abstract

The effects of aging on insight into illness in schizophrenia: a review, International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25055980
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gps.4154/abstract

Insight into illness in late-life schizophrenia: a function of illness severity and premorbid intellectual function, Schizophrenia Research:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23972588
http://www.ajgponline.org/article/S1064-7481%2812%2900270-9/fulltext