1998
DOI: 10.1017/s0033291798006722
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Smooth pursuit and saccadic abnormalities in first-episode schizophrenia

Abstract: Background. Previous studies of oculomotor dysfunction in schizophrenia have tended to concentrate on abnormalities of smooth pursuit eye tracking in chronic medicated patients. We report the results of a study of smooth pursuit, reflexive and antisaccade performance in drug naive and antipsychotic treated first-episode schizophrenic patients.

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“…The main limitation to the study is the lack of imaging data on control subjects, which makes it impossible to confirm whether oculomotor neuronal circuits are abnormal in schizophrenia. The full significance of the correlations reported in this study may become apparent in planned longitudinal studies with appropriate control subjects, which should also explore other eye movements known to be abnormal in schizophrenia, such as antisaccade latency and increased anticipatory saccades during pursuit (Hutton et al 1998;Tregellas et al 2004).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 85%
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“…The main limitation to the study is the lack of imaging data on control subjects, which makes it impossible to confirm whether oculomotor neuronal circuits are abnormal in schizophrenia. The full significance of the correlations reported in this study may become apparent in planned longitudinal studies with appropriate control subjects, which should also explore other eye movements known to be abnormal in schizophrenia, such as antisaccade latency and increased anticipatory saccades during pursuit (Hutton et al 1998;Tregellas et al 2004).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 85%
“…Schizophrenia has been associated with abnormalities of smooth pursuit (Levy et al 1994) and more recently increased antisaccadic errors, which are erroneous reflexive saccades made towards a peripheral target when subjects are instructed to direct their gaze to its mirror image location (Crawford et al 1995;Fukushima et al 1990;Katsanis et al 1997;McDowell & Clementz, 1997). Both abnormal smooth pursuit and increased antisaccade errors have been found at illness onset in medication-naïve patients (Sweeney at al, 1992;Lieberman et al 1993;Hutton et al 1998) and in first-degree relatives (Holzman et al 1988;Crawford et al 1998;Ross et al 1998). Thus, oculomotor abnormalities may represent markers of genetic vulnerability to schizophrenia.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Several studies have demonstrated increased antisaccade errors in populations with known working memory limitations. For example antisaccade errors and correct antisaccade latencies are increased in patients with schizophrenia (Hutton et al, 1998;, and the degree of impairment correlates significantly with working memory dysfunction in these patients (Hutton et al, 2004). Similarly, increased antisaccade errors reported in healthy elderly participants (e.g.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…Patients followed longitudinally show a persistent elevation in antisaccade error rates over time, suggesting an enduring deficit of prefrontal functioning (14,15,16).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%