Smooth Pursuit Eye Tracking in Twins:A Critical Commentary

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 429-431

  Holzman, Philip S ^a   Levy, Deborah L ^b   Matthysse, Steven W ^b   Abel, Larry A ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NOTE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWINS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASES IN TWINS; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); PURSUIT, SMOOTH; RESEARCH DESIGN; SACCADES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0031133992     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1997.01830170047007     Document Type: Letter

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