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Prefrontal broadband noise, working memory, and genetic risk for schizophrenia.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Mar 2004
Winterer Georg, Coppola Richard, Goldberg Terry E, Egan Michael F, Jones Douglas W, Sanchez Carmen E, Weinberger Daniel R
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OBJECTIVE: It has been suggested that increased variability of prefrontal physiological responses may represent a fundamental mechanism underlying frontal lobe deficits in schizophrenia. Increased response variability ("noise") is thought to result from impaired phase resetting of stimulus-induced dynamic changes of ongoing rhythmic oscillations (field potentials) generated in the apical dendrites of pyramidal...
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