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8794493

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-12-5
pubmed:abstractText
Performance on the span of apprehension task, a well-studied information processing task in schizophrenia research, was examined in 11 schizophrenia patients and 11 normal comparison participants, all over the age of 45 years. Subjects detected "T' and "F' targets in briefly-flashed arrays of 1, 6, and 12 letters on the span task. Consistent with previously reported findings in younger schizophrenia patients, the older patients detected significantly fewer targets in the larger (12-letter), but not smaller (1-, or 6-letter), arrays. The older schizophrenia patients also showed significantly slower reaction times in all array-size conditions. Neither age of onset nor duration of illness was significantly correlated with span task performance. The characteristic span of apprehension task deficit found in the older schizophrenia patients suggests that late-life schizophrenia shares a common cognitive impairment with childhood and young adulthood schizophrenia, and provides supportive evidence for a possible stable vulnerability trait deficit in schizophrenia that is independent of age of onset and duration of illness.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0920-9964
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
20
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
51-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-2
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Span of apprehension deficits in older outpatients with schizophrenia.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA. egranholm@ucsd.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't