A brief summary of the articles appearing in this issue of Biological Psychiatry
Source: Biological Psychiatry
In order to develop more effective interventions and reduce the disability of schizophrenia, it is essential to have better measures of the prodromal phase of the disorder. Atkinson et al. (pages 98–104) examined the use of two neurophysiological markers of auditory deviance detection to sound durations in first-episode psychosis, ultra-high risk of schizophrenia, and healthy individuals. Results suggest auditory deviance detection is deficient early in the disease process and may provide a possible marker of the prodromal phase of schizophrenia.