Reaction time facilitation in affective psychotic patients.
The extent to which the second member of a pair of monotic clicks facilitates simple reaction time was examined for 35 psychiatric patients and 43 non-patient controls across 2 studies. Affective psychotic patients showed greater reaction time facilitation than did either schizophrenic patients or non-patient controls. Computer simulations of a 'statistical facilitation' model for these data are also presented.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000341:Affective Disorders, Psychotic / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000503:physiopathology*