Event-related gamma activity in schizophrenia patients during a visual backward-masking task

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 162, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2330-2336

  Wynn, Jonathan K ^a   Light, Gregory A ^b   Breitmeyer, Bruno ^b   Nuechterlein, Keith H ^b   Green, Michael F ^b  

^a VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL BACKWARD MASKING TASK; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 28444483146     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.162.12.2330     Document Type: Article

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