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Motor dysfunction as an intermediate phenotype across schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders: Progress and perspectives.
Schizophrenia research - 1 Oct 2018
Hirjak Dusan, Kubera Katharina M, Thomann Philipp A, Wolf Robert C
Abstract excerpt
Primary motor abnormalities (PMA), as found in patients with schizophrenia, are quantitatively and qualitatively distinct markers of motor system abnormalities. PMA have been often referred to phenomena that are present across schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. A dysfunction of frontoparietal and subcortical networks has been proposed as core pathophysiological mechanism underlying the expression of PMA. However,...
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