Relationship between attention and arousal level in schizophrenia

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 472-477

  Nakamura, Mitsuru ^a   Matsushima, Eisuke ^b   Ohta, Katsuya ^b   Ando, Katsumi ^c   Kojima, Takuya ^d  

^a Toshima Tokyo Metropolitan Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Yamada Hospital   (Japan)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arousal level; Attention; Closed eye eye movements; Cognitive dysfunction; Cross over phenomenon; Schizophrenia; Simple reaction time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYELID CLOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; REACTION TIME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0141997243     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2003.01150.x     Document Type: Article

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