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ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2020

Impaired Fixation-Related Theta Modulation Predicts Reduced Visual Span and Guided Search Deficits in Schizophrenia.

Elisa C Dias, Abraham C Van Voorhis, Filipe Braga, Julianne Todd, Javier Lopez-Calderon, Antigona Martinez, Daniel C Javitt

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Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Seeing things in psychosis: Reduced theta power in early neural responses to ambiguous visual stimuli predicts perceptual distortions.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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  4. Altered excitatory and inhibitory ionotropic receptor subunit expression in the cortical visuospatial working memory network in schizophrenia.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024
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  8. A roadmap for development of neuro-oscillations as translational biomarkers for treatment development in neuropsychopharmacology.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Elisa C DiasSchizophrenia Research Division, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY 10920 USA.
Abraham C Van VoorhisSchizophrenia Research Division, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY 10920 USA.
Filipe BragaSchizophrenia Research Division, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY 10920 USA.
Julianne ToddSchizophrenia Research Division, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY 10920 USA.
Javier Lopez-CalderonSchizophrenia Research Division, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY 10920 USA.
Antigona MartinezSchizophrenia Research Division, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY 10920 USA.
Daniel C JavittSchizophrenia Research Division, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY 10920 USA.
Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research · USColumbia University · US

Funding

EARLY CORTICAL PROCESSING IN SCHIZOPHRENIAR01MH049334 · NIMH · NATHAN S. KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCH RES · PI JAVITT, DANIEL C. · 1998 to 2022
$8.8M
Early Cortical Processing In SchizophreniaR37MH049334 · NIMH · NATHAN S. KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCH RES · PI JAVITT, DANIEL C. · 2003 to 2012
$4.2M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH049334NIMH NIH HHS R37 MH049334
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During normal visual behavior, individuals scan the environment through a series of saccades and fixations. At each fixation, the phase of ongoing rhythmic neural oscillations is reset, thereby increasing efficiency of subsequent visual processing. This phase-reset is reflected in the generation of a fixation-related potential (FRP). Here, we evaluate the integrity of theta phase-reset/FRP generation and Guided Visual Search task in schizophrenia. Subjects performed serial and parallel versions of the task. An initial study (15 healthy controls (HC)/15 schizophrenia patients (SCZ)) investigated behavioral performance parametrically across stimulus features and set-sizes. A subsequent study (25-HC/25-SCZ) evaluated integrity of search-related FRP generation relative to search performance and evaluated visual span size as an index of parafoveal processing. Search times were significantly increased for patients versus controls across all conditions. Furthermore, significantly, deficits were observed for fixation-related theta phase-reset across conditions, that fully predicted impaired reduced visual span and search performance and correlated with impaired visual components of neurocognitive processing. By contrast, overall search strategy was similar between groups. Deficits in theta phase-reset mechanisms are increasingly documented across sensory modalities in schizophrenia. Here, we demonstrate that deficits in fixation-related theta phase-reset during naturalistic visual processing underlie impaired efficiency of early visual function in schizophrenia.

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AdultEye-Tracking TechnologyFemaleFixation, OcularHumansMaleMiddle AgedPhotic StimulationPilot ProjectsPredictive Value of TestsSaccadesSchizophreniaTheta RhythmVisual Perceptioneye movementsfixation-related potential (FRP)intertrial coherencevisual search

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