Smooth pursuit and saccadic abnormalities in first-episode schizophrenia
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Smooth pursuit and saccadic abnormalities in first-episode schizophrenia.
BACKGROUND Previous studies of oculomotor dysfunction in schizophrenia have tended to concentrate on abnormalities of smooth pursuit eye tracking in chronic medicated patients. We report the results of a study of smooth pursuit, reflexive and antisaccade performance in drug naive and antipsychotic treated first-episode schizophrenic patients. METHODS Smooth pursuit and saccadic eye movements ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Medicine
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0033-2917,1469-8978
DOI: 10.1017/s0033291798006722