Toxoplasma gondii exposure affects neural processing speed as measured by acoustic startle latency in schizophrenia and controls

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 258-261

  Pearce, Bradley D ^a   Hubbard, Sydney ^a   Rivera, Hilda N ^b   Wilkins, Patricia P ^b   Fisch, Marylynn C ^a   Hopkins, Myfanwy H ^a   Hasenkamp, Wendy ^c   Gross, Robin ^c   Bliwise, Nancy ^d   Jones, Jeffrey L ^b   Duncan, Erica ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle; Latency; Schizophrenia; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SERODIAGNOSIS; STARTLE REFLEX; SUBCORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ACOUSTIC STARTLE; LATENCY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL INHIBITION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REACTION TIME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; STARTLE REACTION; TIME FACTORS; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 84884128870     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: 15732509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2013.07.028     Document Type: Article

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