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Neural correlates of eye tracking deficits in first-degree relatives of schizophrenic patients: a positron emission tomography study.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Dec 1999
O'Driscoll G A, Benkelfat C, Florencio P S, Wolff A L, Joober R, Lal S, Evans A C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia is thought to arise from the interaction of genetically mediated and environmentally triggered abnormalities in brain function. Reduced frontal activation, reported in schizophrenic patients, may be one expression of genetic risk. The present study investigated whether frontal activation in relatives of schizophrenic patients would be related to eye tracking deficits (ETD), which are...
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