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Smooth pursuit performance in families with multiple occurrence of schizophrenia and nonpsychotic families.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Mar 1999
Lencer R, Malchow C P, Krecker K, Nolte A, Pinnow M, von Siefart S Z, Schwinger E, Arolt V
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BACKGROUND: Eye tracking dysfunction (ETD) has been put forward as a trait marker for biological susceptibility to schizophrenia with the hope of identifying a link to specific cerebral lesions. METHODS: Eye movements were recorded using infrared oculography in 8 families (67 members) showing multiple occurrence of schizophrenia and in 9 nonpsychotic families (80 members). Triangle wave stimuli at 15 degrees/s...
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