TY - JOUR
T1 - Auditory and visual distractibility in schizophrenia. Clinical and medication status correlations
AU - Harvey, Philip D.
AU - Pedley, Marguerite
N1 - Funding Information:
This researchw as funded by the Veterans Administration Schizophrenia Biological Research Center, Kenneth L. Davis, M.D., Principal Investigator.
PY - 1989
Y1 - 1989
N2 - Medicated and unmedicated schizophrenics were compared (both n=18) on visual and auditory digit serial recall tasks with interspersed distraction. It was found that both medicated and unmedicated schizophrenics were distractible auditorally, but that only unmedicated schizophrenics were distractible on visually presented information. Positive, but not negative thought disorder predicted poorer auditory, but not visual, distraction performance for the medicated patients. For the unmedicated patients, positive thought disorder was also associated with auditory, but not visual distraction performance. Negative thought disorder was also a predictor of distraction performance, both visual and auditory, for the unmedicated patients. These results are interpreted in terms of their implications for the effects of medication on absolute performance levels in laboratory tasks and on associations between laboratory and clinical indices.
AB - Medicated and unmedicated schizophrenics were compared (both n=18) on visual and auditory digit serial recall tasks with interspersed distraction. It was found that both medicated and unmedicated schizophrenics were distractible auditorally, but that only unmedicated schizophrenics were distractible on visually presented information. Positive, but not negative thought disorder predicted poorer auditory, but not visual, distraction performance for the medicated patients. For the unmedicated patients, positive thought disorder was also associated with auditory, but not visual distraction performance. Negative thought disorder was also a predictor of distraction performance, both visual and auditory, for the unmedicated patients. These results are interpreted in terms of their implications for the effects of medication on absolute performance levels in laboratory tasks and on associations between laboratory and clinical indices.
KW - Distraction
KW - Thought disorder
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U2 - 10.1016/0920-9964(89)90006-6
DO - 10.1016/0920-9964(89)90006-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 2487169
AN - SCOPUS:0024353191
VL - 2
SP - 295
EP - 300
JO - Schizophrenia Research
JF - Schizophrenia Research
SN - 0920-9964
IS - 3
ER -
