Sustained attention in children at risk for schizophrenia. Report on a continuous performance test.
A test of sustained attention (the Continuous Performance Test) was administered to a group of children at risk for the eventual manifestation of schizophrenia and to a group of "normal control" children. Differences in performance between the two groups were attributable to poorer discriminability on the part of the high-risk subjects.
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D011930:Reaction Time; D012306:Risk; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics*; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014796:Visual Perception