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BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
Volume 50, Issue 6, Pages 447-452Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(01)01168-4
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event-related potentials; schizophrenia; paranoid subtype; symptoms; verbal memory
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Background: This study, compares event-related potentials for paranoid patients (n = 13) versus matched undifferentiated patients and unmedicated patients (n = 14) versus matched healthy, adults. Methods: Event-related potentials of right-handed patients and control subjects were recorded from 30 electrodes during oddball tasks using consonant-vowel syllables or complex tones. Patients were also assessed using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale, the Thought Disorder Index, and the Wechsler Memory Scale. Results: Paranoid patients did not differ from undifferentiated patients in N1 or P3 amplitude but showed larger N2 at frontocentral sites to phonetic stimuli, as well as larger N2 over left than right hemisphere. Unmedicated patients showed reduced N2, but not N1 or P3, compared to control subjects. Conclusions: The N2 findings are consistent with neuropsychological evidence of greater verbal abilities and left hemisphere dominance in paranoid than nonparanoid schizophrenia. The findings also confirm the relationship of P3 to total Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale score, negative symptoms, and verbal associative memory. Biol Psychiatry 2001;50:447-452 (C) 2001 Society, of Biological Psychiatry.
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