The deficit syndrome and eye tracking disorder may reflect a distinct subtype within the syndrome of schizophrenia.

Abstract excerpt

Although many researchers suspect that schizophrenia is a heterogeneous syndrome, identification of valid subtypes has been surprisingly difficult. Both the deficit syndrome and eye tracking disorder have been proposed as meaningful subtypes within schizophrenia. Despite a significant amount of research in these two areas, most of it has been conducted in parallel. Recent evidence suggests that the two phenomena...

Topics

• Affect
• Eye Movements
• Genetic Predisposition to Disease
• Humans
• Models, Neurological
• Psychomotor Performance
• Schizophrenia
• Schizophrenic Psychology
• Syndrome