[The Application of Backward Masking Test for the Study of Visual Information Processing in Healthy Subjects and Schizophrenic Patients.].

The study of 14 healthy individuals and.15 schizophrenia patients was performed in condition of visual backward masking. Sensory thresholds were identified using the method of constant stimuli.

The antisaccade task performance deficit and specific CNV abnormalities in patients with stereotyped paraphilia and schizophrenia.

Antisaccade task performance and mean amplitudes of slow cortical potentials (contingent negative variation--CNV) were investigated in 19 healthy volunteers, 16 schizophrenic patients (SP), and 12 patients with stereotyped form of paraphilia (PP). Compared with healthy subjects, schizophrenic and paraphilic patients committed significantly more erroneous saccades. The clear between-group CNV differences were observed during the early CNV stage that is associated with cognitive aspects of preparatory set.

The contingent negative variation laterality and dynamics in antisaccade task in normal and unmedicated schizophrenic subjects.

Contingent negative variation (CNV) topography, hemispheric asymmetry and time-course were investigated in healthy subjects and non-medicated paranoid schizophrenic patients in two antisaccade paradigms with the short (800-1000 ms) and long (1200-1400 ms) durations of the fixation period. EEG and electrooculogram (EOG) were recorded. Saccade characteristics and mean amplitudes of slow cortical potentials time-locked to peripheral target were analyzed in 23 healthy volunteers and 19 schizophrenic patients.