Article
Saccadic eye movements in families multiply affected with schizophrenia: the Maudsley Family Study.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Dec 1998
Crawford T J, Sharma T, Puri B K, Murray R M, Berridge D M, Lewis S W
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Family studies have shown that abnormalities of smooth pursuit eye movement are increased in the adult relatives of schizophrenic probands as well as in the probands themselves. More recently, an inability of schizophrenic subjects to inhibit reflexive saccades reliably has been shown....
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Family
- Female
- Fixation, Ocular
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neuropsychological Tests
- Reaction Time
- Saccades
- Schizophrenia
- Sex Factors
- Visual Perception