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Stephen G. Landau, MD; Monte S. Buchsbaum, MD; William Carpenter, MD; John Strauss, MD; Michael Sacks, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1975;32(10):1239-1245.

Abstract
• A group of 19 acute, medication-free schizophrenic patients was studied, using average-evoked responses (AERs) to four intensities of light. Comparison with age- and sex-matched normal controls and patients with bipolar affective disorders showed that schizophrenics had smaller AER amplitudes and either no increase or an actual decrease in amplitude with increasing stimulus intensity.

Normal subjects and schizophrenic patients were discriminated with 71% accuracy using AER variables; normals, patients with bipolar disorders, and schizophrenic patients with 64% accuracy. Patients who evidenced this AER "reducing" pattern to a noticeable extent early in hospitalization showed greater improvement and tended to have relatively good premorbid histories.

Author Affiliations
From the Adult Psychiatry Branch (Drs. Landau, Carpenter, Strauss, and Sacks), and the Laboratory of Psychology (Dr. Buchsbaum), Division of Clinical and Behavioral Research, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md. Dr. Landau is now with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Dr. Strauss with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester, NY; and Dr. Sacks, the New York Veterans Administration Hospital, New York.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication April 15, 1975.

Reprint requests to the National Institute of Mental Health, Building 10, Rm 2N 212, Bethesda, MD 20014 (Dr. Buchsbaum).

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