Resources and Links of Interest:

Psychiatry Research - The VAGUS insight into psychosis scale - Self-report and clinician-rated versions:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25246410

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - The effects of aging on insight into illness in schizophrenia: a review:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25055980

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

Human Brain Mapping - Illness denial in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: A function of left hemisphere dominance:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25209949

Medscape - Caloric Vestibular Stimulation for insight into psychosis:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/827065

Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario - Water test used on patients with schizophrenia by camh researchers to make them aware of their illness:
http://caho-hospitals.com/water-test-used-on-patients-with-schizophrenia-by-camh-researchers-to-make-them-aware-of-their-illness

Schizophrenia Research - Impaired insight into illness and cognitive insight in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: Resting state functional connectivity:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25458571

Schizophrenia Research - Frontotemporoparietal asymmetry and lack of illness awareness in schizophrenia:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22213454

Schizophrenia Research - Insight into illness in late-life schizophrenia: a function of illness severity and premorbid intellectual function:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23972588