Article
Exploratory eye movement dysfunctions in patients with schizophrenia: possibility as a discriminator for schizophrenia.
Journal of psychiatric research - 1 Jan 2000
Matsushima E, Kojima T, Ohta K, Obayashi S, Nakajima K, Kakuma T, Ando H, Ando K, Toru M
Abstract excerpt
In our previous studies patients with schizophrenia and their parents had less frequent eye fixations and a more limited area of inspection than normal controls while freely viewing stationary S-shaped figures. The present study attempted to discriminate schizophrenics from non-schizophrenics usi...
Topics
- Adult
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Discrimination Learning
- Eye Movements
- Female
- Fixation, Ocular
- Humans
- Male
- Mental Disorders
- Middle Aged
- Pattern Recognition, Visual
- Phenotype
- Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenic Psychology
- Sensitivity and Specificity