Sustained and selective attention as measures of genetic liability to schizophrenia

Jones, L. A., Cardno, A. G., Sanders, R. D., Owen, Michael John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4798-0862 and Williams, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4069-0259 2001. Sustained and selective attention as measures of genetic liability to schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research 48 (2-3) , pp. 263-267.

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Abstract

We tested for a relationship between attention and genetic liability to schizophrenia. Samples of probands with DSM-IV schizophrenia (n=20), their well first-degree relatives (n=40) and healthy controls (n=82) were tested using measures of sustained attention (degraded-stimulus continuous performance test: DS-CPT) and selective attention (spatial negative priming task). Assuming a liability-threshold model, we predicted that probands would display greater attentional decrements than controls and that the relatives would show intermediate levels of decrement. We did not observe the predicted pattern of effect using either measure, although the probands showed a trend towards less negative priming. However, our results may have been affected by self-selection bias in probands and relatives and clinical heterogeneity among probands, which could have reduced our power to detect effects.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0920-9964
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 09:23
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/80863

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