Schizophrenia patients show deficits in shifts of attention to different levels of global-local stimuli: Evidence for magnocellular dysfunction

Schizophrenia Bulletin

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1108-1116

  Coleman, Michael J ^a   Cestnick, Laurie ^b   Krastoshevsky, Olga ^a   Krause, Verena ^a   Huang, Zhuying ^c   Mendell, Nancy R ^d   Levy, Deborah L ^a  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

dorsal visual stream; global local; magnocellular; parvocellular; schizophrenia; ventral visual stream

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GENICULATE BODY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOSIS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SIZE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 73949101320     PISSN: 05867614     EISSN: 17451701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbp090     Document Type: Article

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