Smooth pursuit eye movements, schizophrenia, and distraction.
This study tested whether smooth pursuit eye-movement dysfunctions, prevalent in a large population of schizophrenic patients, are distinguishable from impaired pursuit induced in normals by a distracting task. Results showed clear qualitative and quantitative distinctions between records of 23 distracted normals and those of 15 schizophrenics.
D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005133:Eye Movements; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation / Q000502:physiology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000503:physiopathology*