BJP Email content delivery - eTOCs !
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Psychiatric Bulletin Advances in Psychiatric Treatment All RCPsych Journals
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

The British Journal of Psychiatry (1968) 114: 1161-1165. doi: 10.1192/bjp.114.514.1161
© 1968 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Submit an eLetter
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via CrossRef
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by GOLDBERG, S. C.
Right arrow Articles by MATTSSON, N.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by GOLDBERG, S. C.
Right arrow Articles by MATTSSON, N.

Paranoid and Withdrawal Symptoms in Schizophrenia: Relationship to Reaction Time

SOLOMON C. GOLDBERG 1, NINA R. SCHOOLER 1, and NILS MATTSSON 1

1 Clinical Studies Section, Psychopharmacology Research Branch, National Institute of Mental Health,5454 Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland 2023, U.S.A.

Slower reaction time was found to be consistently associated with severity of a group of withdrawal symptoms; at the same time, reaction time was consistently unrelated to a group of paranoid symptoms. The results confirm Shakow's empirical observations that hebephrenics have slower reaction times than paranoids, and support Silverman's notions that withdrawn patients are suffering from information overload to which they react secondarily by narrowing the stimulus field. It would follow that current therapeutic measures aimed at increasing stimulation and arousal in withdrawn patients are self-defeating. While these results neither support nor refute an interference theory of schizophrenia, it is noteworthy that "Auditory Hallucinations", which epitomizes interference, does correlate consistently with reaction time.

Submitted on June 12, 1967




This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Arch Gen PsychiatryHome page
G. W. Wohlberg and C. Kornetsky
Sustained Attention in Remitted Schizophrenics
Arch Gen Psychiatry, April 1, 1973; 28(4): 533 - 537.
[Abstract] [PDF]


HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Psychiatric Bulletin Advances in Psychiatric Treatment All RCPsych Journals
Copyright © 1968 The Royal College of Psychiatrists.