ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
Tobacco Use Decreases Visual Sensitivity in Schizophrenia.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on Contrast Sensitivity in Schizophrenia.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Pooled it
- Smoking prevalence and correlates among inpatients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Painting psychosis: an empirical investigation of the self-portraits of Edvard Munch.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Study investigating executive function in schizophrenia patients and their unaffected siblings.PloS one · 2023Article
- Smoking and attention in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: What are we neglecting?Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Effects of Nicotine Gum Administration on Vision (ENIGMA-Vis): Study Protocol of a Double-Blind, Randomized, and Controlled Clinical Trial.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Spatial contrast sensitivity: effects of reliability, test-retest repeatability and sample size using the Metropsis software.Eye (London, England) · 2019Article
- Combined influence of illness duration and medication type on visual sensitivity in schizophrenia.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)Article
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Abstract
Smoking prevalence in patients who are diagnosed with schizophrenia (SCZ) is higher than in the general population. Chronic tobacco use in SCZ patients may reduce the side effects of antipsychotic drugs, thus serving as a self-medication for such side effects. Understanding the ways in which chronic tobacco use influences visual sensitivity has clinical implications, which may serve as a tool for non-invasively diagnosing early-stage visual processing deficits. The present study evaluated the effects of chronic tobacco use on visual sensitivity in SCZ patients. Our purpose was to provide new directions for future research, mainly psychophysical and electrophysiological studies. In the present study, 40 smoker controls (SC), 20 SCZ tobacco users, and 20 SCZ tobacco nonusers were recruited from the Psychosocial Care Center. Visual sensitivity was compared between both SCZ groups and the SC group. Patients with SCZ who were chronic tobacco users presented lower visual sensitivity for chromatic (
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