title: Clinical attributes of schizophrenic skin conductance responders and non-responders.
abstract: Nurses rated schizophrenics, subclassified upon the basis of the presence or absence of electrodermal orienting responses, with Wittenborn scales. Amongst non-institutionalized patients responders, who are more highly aroused psychophysiologically than non-responders, were more manic, anxious, assaultive and attention-demanding. Amongst institutionalized patients skin conductance levels and spontaneous fluctuations were associated with behaviour of a schizophrenic character.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005712:Galvanic Skin Response; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012560:Schizophrenia, Catatonic / Q000175:diagnosis; D012562:Schizophrenia, Disorganized / Q000175:diagnosis; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000175:diagnosis; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology