Integrated assessment of visual perception abnormalities in psychotic disorders and relationship with clinical characteristics

• Published in: Psychological medicine Vol. 49; no. 10; pp. 1740 - 1748
• Main Authors: Türközer, Halide Bilge, Hasoğlu, Tuna, Chen, Yue, Norris, Lesley Anne, Brown, Meredith, Delaney-Busch, Nathaniel, Kale, Emre H., Pamir, Zahide, Boyacı, Hüseyin, Kuperberg, Gina, Lewandowski, Kathryn E., Topçuoğlu, Volkan, Öngür, Dost
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.07.2019
• Subjects: Clinical assessment; Discrimination; Information processing; Integration; Masking; Memory; Mental disorders; Neurosciences; Original Articles; Pathology; Patients; Psychosis; Research subjects; Schizoaffective disorder; Schizophrenia; Severity; Short term memory; Spatial memory; Task performance; Visual discrimination; Visual memory; Visual perception; Visual processing; Visual system; visuospatial working memory; contour integration; schizophrenia; velocity discrimination; Context processing; psychosis

The visual system is recognized as an important site of pathology and dysfunction in schizophrenia. In this study, we evaluated different visual perceptual functions in patients with psychotic disorders using a potentially clinically applicable task battery and assessed their relationship with sympt...