title: Perceptual span in schizophrenia and affective disorders.
abstract: Perceptual span was assessed in schizophrenic, bipolar affective disorder-manic, bipolar affective disorder-depressed, and nonpsychotic inpatients. Both schizophrenics and manics processed less information than depressives, and did not differ from each other. This suggests that reduced span may be a concomitant of psychoses characterized by distractibility and thought disorder, rather than a trait specific to schizophrenia.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011930:Reaction Time; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology