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Brain activation during antisaccades in unaffected relatives of schizophrenic patients.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Mar 2006
Raemaekers Mathijs, Ramsey Nick F, Vink Matthijs, van den Heuvel Martin P, Kahn Rene S
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BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia patients have difficulty inhibiting automatic saccades. Many studies have failed to resolve whether healthy first-degree relatives share the same deficit. Measures of brain activity may be more sensitive than behavioral measures. In patients, the saccadic inhibition deficit has been related to impaired frontostriatal functioning. This study attempts to establish whether this abnormality...
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