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NEUROREPORT
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 465-469Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200103050-00009
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anticipation; attention; human; prediction; saccadic eye movement; schizophrenia
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Using infrared oculography, we compared saccades toward predictable and pseudo-random visual targets in 19 neuroleptic-free patients with schizophrenia (including 13 neuroleptic-naive patients) and in 29 age- and gender-marched healthy volunteers. Externally driven saccades were not different between patients and controls, whether or not the target was predictable. Anticipated saccades were specifically less accurate in the patients compared to the controls. The difference between primary gain of anticipated and non-anticipated saccades was markedly higher in the patients compared to controls (p=0.003). These results point to a deficit in the early step of internally driven oculomotor planning in schizophrenia. NeuroReport 12:465-469 (C) 2001 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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