Article
Sustained attention deficit and schizotypal personality features in nonpsychotic relatives of schizophrenic patients.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Sept 1998
Chen W J, Liu S K, Chang C J, Lien Y J, Chang Y H, Hwu H G
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The authors investigated whether nonpsychotic relatives of schizophrenic probands have an elevated risk of deficits in sustained attention as measured by the Continuous Performance Test (CPT), whether such deficits are associated with specific factors of schizotypy, and whether poor CP...
Topics
- Adult
- Attention
- Cognition Disorders
- Comorbidity
- Family
- Female
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neuropsychological Tests
- Psychomotor Performance
- Reaction Time
- Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenic Psychology
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- Taiwan