Nicotine Effect on Prepulse Inhibition and Prepulse Facilitation in Schizophrenia Patients
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Prepulse facilitation and prepulse inhibition in schizophrenia patients and their unaffected siblings.
BACKGROUND Deficits in schizophrenia patients and their first-degree relatives have been reported in prepulse inhibition (PPI), a phenomenon that measures an early stage of information processing (sensorimotor gating). It is less clear whether these information processing deficits extend to prepulse facilitation (PPF), which measures a later stage of generalized alerting or orienting. METHODS...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuropsychopharmacology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0893-133X,1740-634X
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1301601