期刊
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
卷 65, 期 12, 页码 1099-1102出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.10.045
关键词
Antisaccades; drug abuse; eye tracking; ketamine; schizophrenia; smooth pursuit; spatial working memory; verbal memory
资金
- UK Economic and Social Research Council [RES-000-23-0945]
- Wellcome Trust UK [064607]
- Economic and Social Research Council [RES-000-23-0945] Funding Source: researchfish
Background: Acute ketamine has been shown to model features of schizophrenia such as psychotic symptoms, cognitive deficits and smooth pursuit eye movement dysfunction. There have been suggestions that chronic ketamine may also produce an analogue of the disorder. In this study, we investigated the effect of persistent recreational ketamine use on tests of episodic and working memory and on oculomotor tasks of smooth pursuit and pro- and antisaccades. Methods: Twenty ketamine users were compared with 1) 20 first-episode schizophrenia patients, 2) 17 polydrug control subjects who did not use ketamine but were matched to the ketamine users for other drug use, and 3) 20 non-drug-using control subjects. All groups were matched for estimated premorbid IQ. Results: Ketamine users made more antisaccade errors than both control groups but did not differ from patients. Ketamine users performed better than schizophrenia patients on smooth pursuit, antisaccade metrics, and both memory tasks but did not differ from control groups. Conclusions: Problems inhibiting reflexive eye movements maybe a consequence of repeated ketamine self-administration. The absence of any other oculomotor or cognitive deficit present in schizophrenia suggests that chronic self-administration of ketamine may not be a good model of these aspects of the disorder.
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