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Contrast sensitivity for stationary and drifting spatial frequency gratings in positive- and negative-symptom schizophrenia
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To investigate the transient channel deficit hypothesis in schizophrenia, the authors measured the contrast sensitivity for stationary and drifting gratings in groups with positive- and negative-symptom schizophrenia. The negative-symptom group showed a significant reduction in contrast sensitivity for stationary and drifting gratings at low, medium, and high spatial frequencies in comparison to the control group. There were no differences in contrast sensitivity between the control and positive-symptom groups for stationary and drifting gratings at low-spatial frequencies, but there were significant reductions at medium and high spatial frequencies. The results are consistent with a disorder in both sustained and transient channels in negative-symptom schizophrenia and a disorder in sustained channels in positive-symptom schizophrenia.
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“Patients with schizophrenia show preferential M-pathway dysfunction (21,22,28,35–38), although deficits have also been observed in parvocellular processing (19,20).”
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“First, patients with schizophrenia show decreased contrast sensitivity (i.e., need more contrast to detect a grating) across a range of grating-sizes in behavioral studies (19,20).”
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“There is also evidence that gain control deficits, seen in contrast detection and M-pathway deficits, are important in predicting outcome (22,45), and are related to higher-level problems in perceptual organization (28,46) and to symptomatology (20,47–51).”
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- Authors
- Slaghuis, W. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Tasmania (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Slaghuis, Walter A.
- Venue
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Published
- 1998-02
- Volume
- 107
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 49-62
- ISSN
- 0021-843X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1846
- OpenAlex
- W2006289228
- Cited by
- 168
- References
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- FWCI
- 2.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hallucinations in medical conditions
- Keywords
- contrast sensitivity, schizophrenia, negative symptoms, positive symptoms, drifting gratings, spatial frequency, sustained attention, visual perception
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Arousal, Delusions, Depression, Female, Humans, Male, Motion Perception, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Schizophrenia, Schizophrenic Psychology, Sensory Thresholds, Contrast Sensitivity
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