Attentional abilities and measures of schizotypy: their variation and covariation in schizophrenic patients, their siblings, and normal control subjects.

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Thirty-five schizophrenic patients in the early stages of illness, 26 of their healthy siblings, and 35 normal control subjects performed the Continuous Performance Test, Identical Pairs version (CPT-IP). Both schizophrenic patients and their siblings were significantly impaired in their attentional performance compared with normal subjects. These results support impaired attention as a vulnerability marker of...

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