Deficits in auditory and visual context-dependent processing in schizophrenia: defining the pattern.

Abstract

Schizophrenic patients are significantly impaired in their ability to form and utilize transient memory traces to guide behavior. These deficits are associated with failures of cortical activation occurring within several hundred milliseconds of stimulus presentation. A similar pattern of deficit is observed across sensory and cognitive systems. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2000;57:1131-1137.