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Memory-guided saccade abnormalities in schizophrenic patients and their healthy, full biological siblings.
Psychological medicine - 1 Jun 2008
Landgraf S, Amado I, Bourdel M-C, Leonardi S, Krebs M-O
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Ocular-motor inhibition errors and saccadic hypometria occur at elevated rates in biological relatives of schizophrenic patients. The memory-guided saccade (MS) paradigm requires a subject to inhibit reflexive saccades (RSs) and to programme a delayed saccade towards a remembered target. METHOD: MS, RS, and central fixation (CF) tasks were administered to 16 patients who met the criteria for DSM-IV...
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