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URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-63372
URL: http://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/volltexte/2011/6337/

P 300 asymmetries in schizophrenia revisited with reference-independent methods

Strik, Werner K. ; Dierks, Thomas ; Franzek, Ernst ; Stöber, Gerald ; Maurer, Konrad

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Keywords from authority file SWD (German):		Schizophrenie
Free keywords (English):		Laterality, evoked potentials, electroeneephalography
Institute:		Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Dewey Decimal Classification:		Psychology
Document type:		Article
Language:		English
Year of creation:		1994
Date of publication:		01.09.2011
Abstract in English:		Evidence of hemispheric asymmetries in schizophrenia has been reported from different research areas. Asymmetries in evoked potential P300 topography are still controversial because of inconsistent findings. In the present study. previous results of abnormal lateralization of P300 were replicated in stabilized residual Schizophrenie patients. Auditory P300 was recorded during an odd ball task in which subjeets detected rare target stimuli. Schizophrenie patients had the P300 peak shifted to the right hemisphere and differed signifieantly from age- and sex-matched normal control subjects who had left-lateralized P300 peaks. A comparison of different methods of assessment and analysis of the topographical features of the P300 electric fields showed that the extraction of reference-independent descriptors of P300 topography is a reliable and sensitive method for statistical handling of the maps. The results suggest left hemispheric dysfunction during cognitive tasks in a subgroup of Schizophrenie patients. Inconsistencies between previous sturlies are likely to be due to heterogeneous patient groups, which may have included patients in an acute Schizophrenie episode or patients in clinical remission. lnvestigation of the clinical meaning of P300 alterations requires careful psychopathological definition of the patient groups.
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