Article
Comparative assessment of saccadic eye movements, psychomotor and cognitive performance in schizophrenics, their first-degree relatives and control subjects.
Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica - 1 Mar 1995
Schreiber H, Rothmeier J, Becker W, Jürgens R, Born J, Stolz-Born G, Westphal K P, Kornhuber H H
Abstract excerpt
This study is aimed at detecting biological markers for schizophrenia. For this purpose, a total of 70 subjects (21 schizophrenic patients, 27 first-degree relatives and 22 controls) performed a series of tests assessing various attentional, psychomotor and cognitive functions and saccadic eye movements. The schizophrenics performed significantly poorer than both high-risk and control subjects in most of the...
Topics
- Adult
- Arousal
- Attention
- Cognition Disorders
- Discrimination Learning
- Female
- Humans
- Intelligence
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neuropsychological Tests
