“…Cognitive impairment is one of the core features of SMIs (Bortolato, Miskowiak, Kohler, Vieta, & Carvalho, 2015). Particularly in patients with schizophrenia, cognitive impairment has been recognized as an enduring problem over the course of the disease and is associated with poor overall functioning (Schulz & Murray, 2016). Current research points to the role of aberrant immune system response in pathogenesis of schizophrenia as evidenced by association between pre-natal infection and schizophrenia, pro/anti-inflammatory cytokine imbalance, and association of immunerelated genes with schizophrenia (Fineberg & Ellman, 2013;Miller, Buckley, Seabolt, Mellor, & Kirkpatrick, 2011).…”