Startle gating deficits in a large cohort of patients with schizophrenia: Relationship to medications, symptoms, neurocognition, and level of function

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1325-1335

  Swerdlow, Neal R ^a,c   Light, Gregory A ^a   Cadenhead, Kristin S ^a   Sprock, Joyce ^a   Hsieh, Ming H ^b   Braff, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREPULSE INHIBITION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STARTLE REFLEX; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REACTION TIME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 33845325470     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.63.12.1325     Document Type: Article

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