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Sustained and selective attention as measures of genetic liability to schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia research - 30 Mar 2001
Jones L A, Cardno A G, Sanders R D, Owen M J, Williams J
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We tested for a relationship between attention and genetic liability to schizophrenia. Samples of probands with DSM-IV schizophrenia (n=20), their well first-degree relatives (n=40) and healthy controls (n=82) were tested using measures of sustained attention (degraded-stimulus continuous performance test: DS-CPT) and selective attention (spatial negative priming task). Assuming a liability-threshold model, we...
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