Journal
NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA
Volume 161, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107989
Keywords
Schizophrenia; Schizotypy; Schizotypal personality; Latent inhibition; Smooth pursuit eye movements; Sensory gating; Endophenotypes
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- set-up of the eye-trackers and EEG equipment
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The study found that sensory gating was related to positive and disorganized dimensions, smooth pursuit eye movement error was related to negative dimensions, while latent inhibition and prepulse inhibition were not related to any dimensions of schizotypy. These results suggest that the symptom clusters associated with different endophenotypes are largely independent of each other.
Since the characteristics and symptoms of both schizophrenia and schizotypy are manifested heterogeneously, it is possible that different endophenotypes and neurophysiological measures (sensory gating and smooth pursuit eye movement errors) represent different clusters of symptoms. Participants (N = 205) underwent a standard conditioned-pairing paradigm to establish their sensory gating ratio, a smooth-pursuit eye-movement task, a latent inhibition task, and completed the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire. A Multidimensional Scaling analysis revealed that sensory gating was related to positive and disorganised dimensions of schizotypy. Latent inhibition and prepulse inhibition were not related to any dimension of schizotypy. Smooth pursuit eye movement error was unrelated to sensory gating and latent inhibition, but was related to negative dimensions of schizotypy. Our findings suggest that the symptom clusters associated with two main endophenotypes are largely independent. To fully understand symptomology and outcomes of schizotypal traits, the different subtypes of schizotypy (and potentially, schizophrenia) ought to be considered separately rather than together.
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