Altered brain response without behavioral attention deficits in healthy siblings of schizophrenic patients. An event-related fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1080-1090

  Sepede, Gianna ^a   Ferretti, Antonio ^a   Perrucci, Mauro Gianni ^a   Gambi, Francesco ^a   Di Donato, Fiore ^b   Nuccetelli, Francesco ^b   Del Gratta, Cosimo ^a   Tartaro, Armando ^a   Salerno, Rosa Maria ^a   Ferro, Filippo Maria ^a   Romani, Gian Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b Center of Mental Health   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continuous Performance Test (CPT); Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI); Insula; Schizophrenia; Siblings; Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; RESPONSE TIME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIBLING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349976091     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.07.053     Document Type: Article

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