The 'new look' in studies of schizophrenic attention and information processing
| Autor: | Jonathan Sugarman, Bonnie Spring, Steven Matthysse, Keith H. Nuechterlein |
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Eye Movements Psychometrics Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) media_common.quotation_subject Information Theory Developmental psychology Psychological Techniques Phenothiazines Id ego and super-ego Reading (process) Phenomenon Psychophysics Reaction Time Humans Attention media_common Psychological research Information processing Psychiatry and Mental health Research Design Auditory Perception Schizophrenia Visual Perception Schizophrenic Psychology Psychology Schizophrenic Language Antipsychotic Agents Psychophysiology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| Popis: | Gone are the days when a researcher concerned with information processing in schizophrenia could gain a thorough understanding of the topic by merely reading the literature from his own discipline. In investigation s of schizophrenic attention dysfunction it is rare nowadays to discover a clinician who finds the phenomenon adequately explained by faulty ego mechanisms, a neurophysiologist who invokes a simple disturbance in brain functioning, or a psychologist who relies on a single sure-fire test of attention. The "new look" in attention and information processing in schizophrenia reflects a burgeoning of cross-discipl inary research. At the interface between psychological research and clinical psychiatry, findings of differences between patients and normals are being applied to investigate high risk populations, to search for prognostic indicators, to shed light on clinical symptomatology, and to understand the sites and mechanisms of drug action. By applying biological and psychological techniques, researchers are studying . the psychophysiological, biochemical, and neuroanatomical substrates of attention dysfunction. These were some of the topics discussed by participants in the Conference on Attention and Information Processing sponsored in May 1976 by the Scottish Rite Schizophrenia Research Program. |
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