There are many studies reporting poor insight in schizophrenic patients. Other studies demonstrated deficits in executive functions in these same patients.

The results of empirical studies that try to establish the relationship between levels of insight and various clinical and neuropsychological variables are not consistent.

The aim of this study was to establish the relationship between the executive functions, as defined by the Behavioral Assessment of Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS- N. Alderman, 1996) and the level of insight, evaluated by Assessment of Insight in Psychosis scale (I. Marková, 2002). We also tried to correlate some clinical variables (age, gender, age of onset, schoolarity, type of pharmacotherapy, severity of psychopathology) with the level of insight and executive dysfunction.

we studied 50 schizophrenic outpatients of the Psychiatry Department of our Hospital, whose age ranged between 16 and 60 years, and who had stabilized disease. Informed Consent was obtained from all participants.

We evaluated patients trough the following sequence: clinical interview in order to obtain clinical and social variables; Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE – M. Folstein,1975); Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS - Kay SR, 1987),Assessment of Insight in Psychosis Scale (I. Marková, 2002) and Behavioral Assessment of Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS- N. Alderman, 1996).

The study is now under statistically evaluation.