Poor P50 suppression among schizophrenia patients and their first-degree biological relatives.

doi:10.1176/ajp.155.12.1691

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Poor P50 suppression among schizophrenia patients and their first-degree biological relatives.

The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Dec 1998

Clementz B A, Geyer M A, Braff D L

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OBJECTIVE: This study's goal was to replicate the finding that family members of schizophrenia patients show poor P50 suppression during a paired-click auditory evoked response paradigm. METHOD: The paired-click paradigm was used to test 44 schizophrenia patients, 60 of their clinically unaffecte...

Topics

Acoustic Stimulation
Adult
Electroencephalography
Electrooculography
Evoked Potentials, Auditory
Family
Female
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Schizophrenia

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