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Attentional deficit in the siblings of schizophrenics. 1979

R L Wood, and M Cook

A study of attentional deficit in the relatives of schizophrenics and in a matched control group is reported, in which the relatives are found to have poorer scores on a vigilance test and on a choice reaction time test. It is concluded that this deficit points to one of the primary symptoms of schizoprenia, and suggestions for further research are made.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D008875	Middle Aged	An adult aged 45 - 64 years.	Middle Age
D011930	Reaction Time	The time from the onset of a stimulus until a response is observed.	Response Latency,Response Speed,Response Time,Latency, Response,Reaction Times,Response Latencies,Response Times,Speed, Response,Speeds, Response
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293	Adolescent	A person 13 to 18 years of age.	Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D000328	Adult	A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available.	Adults
D001288	Attention	Focusing on certain aspects of current experience to the exclusion of others. It is the act of heeding or taking notice or concentrating.	Focus of Attention,Selective Attention,Social Attention,Attention Focus,Attention, Selective,Attention, Social,Selective Attentions
D012569	Schizotypal Personality Disorder	A personality disorder in which there are oddities of thought (magical thinking, paranoid ideation, suspiciousness), perception (illusions, depersonalization), speech (digressive, vague, overelaborate), and behavior (inappropriate affect in social interactions, frequently social isolation) that are not severe enough to characterize schizophrenia.	Incipient Schizophrenia,Latent Schizophrenia,Personality Disorder, Schizotypal,Pseudoneurotic Schizophrenia,Pseudopsychopathic Schizophrenia,Schizophrenia, Borderline,Schizophrenia, Latent,Schizophrenia, Pseudoneurotic,Borderline Schizophrenia,Borderline Schizophrenias,Disorder, Schizotypal Personality,Disorders, Schizotypal Personality,Incipient Schizophrenias,Latent Schizophrenias,Personality Disorders, Schizotypal,Pseudoneurotic Schizophrenias,Pseudopsychopathic Schizophrenias,Schizophrenia, Incipient,Schizophrenia, Pseudopsychopathic,Schizophrenias, Borderline,Schizophrenias, Incipient,Schizophrenias, Latent,Schizophrenias, Pseudoneurotic,Schizophrenias, Pseudopsychopathic,Schizotypal Personality Disorders