Cited by 70Schizophrenia research and treatmentNeurotransmitter Receptor Influence on BehaviorNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

The effects of guanfacine on context processing abnormalities in schizotypal personality disorder

Open access
McClure, Margaret M., Barch, Deanna M., Romero, Michelle J., Minzenberg, Michael J., Triebwasser, Joseph, Harvey, Philip D., Siever, Larry J.·2007·Biological Psychiatry

Abstract

Background The signature of impaired cognition in people with schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) may be centrally related to working memory impairments. Guanfacine, an alpha2A agonist that acts post-synaptically in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), has shown potential for reducing working memory limitations in other populations. This study examined the potential of guanfacine for improving context processing, a feature of working memory, in SPD. Methods 29 individuals with SPD entered into a 4-week, randomized parallel-design, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of guanfacine treatment, followed by a 4-week open-label extension. A modified version of the AX-Continuous Performance Test (AX-CPT) was administered. On this task, evidence of intact context processing includes few BX errors (false cue, correct probe) and higher levels of AY errors (correct cue, false probe). Results At the end of double-blind treatment, participants treated with guanfacine demonstrated a significant reduction in BX errors and a small but significant increase in AY errors, a pattern that was not seen in the participants treated with placebo. Conclusions SPD participants improved in their context processing toward a normal response bias, making fewer BX and more AY errors, after being treated with guanfacine.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.06.034

Cites

20 of 20 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
McClure, M. M., Barch, D. M., Romero, M. J., Minzenberg, M. J., Triebwasser, J., Harvey, P. D., & Siever, L. J.
Affiliations
  • New York/New Jersey VA Health Care Network (US)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
  • University of California Davis Medical Center (US)
Corresponding author
McClure, Margaret M.
Venue
Biological Psychiatry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2007-05
Volume
61
Issue
10
Pages
1157-1160
ISSN
0006-3223 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2109671525
Cited by
70
References
20
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 5
FWCI
2.56
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Biological Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (MH 56140, MH 63116)
  • National Center for Research Resources
  • National Institutes of Health
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Keywords
guanfacine, schizotypal personality disorder, context processing, working memory, prefrontal cortex, response bias, false alarm errors
MeSH terms
Adrenergic alpha-Agonists, Adult, Cognition Disorders, Double-Blind Method, Female, Humans, Male, Memory, Short-Term, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Reaction Time, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Guanfacine

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review