Psychophysiology and Schizophrenia

Studies of autonomic psychophysiology and attention in schizophrenia.

Research from this laboratory over the years has found a rather consistent pattern of high baseline levels of many (but not all) indices of autonomic activity, slow adaptation, and attenuated autonomic reactivity to significant stimuli and situations in schizophrenia and that this pattern may be related to prognosis. Our studies have also shown that qualitatively similar changes occur in health...

The pupillary response in cognitive psychophysiology and schizophrenia.

The electrodermal psychophysiology of schizophrenics and children at risk for schizophrenia: controversies and developments.

A fairly comprehensive review of the psychophysiology of schizophrenia has recently been presented by Venables (1975); however, the opportunity offered here to write a somewhat more idiosyncratic review of work on the autonomic physiology of schizophrenia provides the chance of looking in as wide a context as possible at some areas of research that appear to have provided a certain degree of co...

Integrative psychophysiology.

This paper attempts to provide an overview of the current status and some possible future directions of 'Integrative Psychophysiology'. Exemplar integrations are offered for: (i) the theory of some of the more cited models of the brain as a system; (ii) a numerical simulation of brain dynamics (highlighting the plausibility of exploring mechanisms at the whole brain scale); and (iii) an empiric...

Virtual reality and applied psychophysiology.

Virtual reality (VR) technology has undergone a transition in the past few years that has taken it from the realm of “expensive toy” into that of “functional technology.” After a period of inflated expectations and limited delivery in the early 90s, this form of computerbased simulation technology is now beginning to emerge as a viable tool for a wide range of clinical and research applications...