Article
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
Abstract excerpt
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...
Topics
- Adult
- Arousal
- Attention
- Brain Mapping
- Cerebral Cortex
- Electroencephalography
- Evoked Potentials
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Male
