PMID: 3759348Sep 1, 1986Paper

Reduced P200 latency and allusive thinking: an auditory evoked potential index of a cognitive predisposition to schizophrenia?

The International Journal of Neuroscience
S V CattsN McConaghy

Abstract

Auditory evoked potentials were recorded in healthy medical students who were grouped according to whether they obtained a high or low score on an Object Sorting Test (OST), on which schizophrenics also obtain high scores. High-OST scoring male students compared to Low-OST scoring male students showed reduced P200 latency. This finding was replicated in a second study of medical students. The authors believe these results support the hypothesis that schizophrenic thought disorder and an equivalent loosening of thinking in nonschizophrenic populations (allusive thinking) have a neurophysiological basis in common, namely a relative weakness of inhibition operating on cortical and subcortical structures.

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