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Reduced prepulse inhibition in unaffected siblings of schizophrenia patients.
Psychophysiology - 1 Sept 2005
Kumari Veena, Das Mrigen, Zachariah Elizabeth, Ettinger Ulrich, Sharma Tonmoy
Abstract excerpt
We investigated whether prepulse inhibition of the startle response is reduced in siblings of schizophrenia patients compared to age- and sex-matched healthy controls. Nineteen unaffected biological siblings and 19 controls were assessed on prepulse inhibition by monaural and binaural acoustic prepulse stimuli, with the startle stimuli always presented binaurally. There was significantly less prepulse inhibition...
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