The gamma band response may account for poor P50 suppression in schizophrenia.

Neuroreport

Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0109, USA.

Published: December 1997

The relationship between gamma band response (GBR) and P50 suppression was investigated among 10 DSM-IV schizophrenia patients and 10 normal comparison subjects using neuromagnetic and electrical recordings. In a paired-click paradigm, the neuromagnetic GBR and M100 suppression data improved schizophrenia-normal group separations over the typical electrical, vertex-recorded P50 suppression measure. The neuromagnetic GBR was also superior to the magnetic equivalent of P50 (M50) for discriminating schizophrenia and normal subjects. Our data are consistent with the hypothesis that P50 may be a subcomponent of the GBR, and that P50 suppression may be a proxy for GBR suppression. Measurement of the GBR should be given consideration as another, and perhaps better, means for evaluating auditory-evoked response abnormalities among schizophrenia patients.

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