This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

A Predictor of Neuromotor and Attentional Abnormalities in Schizophrenia

Elaine Walker, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1982;39(10):1153-1156.

Abstract
• Family history of psychopathology may have a role in schizophrenics' attentional and neuromotor functions. Twelve schizophrenics with a schizophrenic biological parent (SFH), 12 schizophrenics with no history of schizophrenia in first- or second-degree relatives (SNFH), 12 psychiatric controls, and 12 normal controls were given brief neuromotor examinations and the continuous performance test (CPT). Statistical analyses indicated that SFH manifested significantly more neuromotor abnormalities than did normal controls. On the CPT, SFH had significantly more errors than SNFH and psychiatric controls and slower reaction times than psychiatric controls.

Author Affiliations
Janet Shaye

From the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Feb 11,1982.

Reprint requests to Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 (Dr Walker).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

Neurological soft signs in first-episode psychosis: a systematic review
DAZZAN and MURRAY
Br. J. Psychiatry 2002;181 :s50-s57.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

The Neurologic Examination in Adult Psychiatry: From Soft Signs to Hard Science
Sanders and Keshavan
J. Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosi. 1998;10:395-404.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT