Catts SV, Ward PB, Garvey JR, Fox AM, Michie PT, McConaghy N. Somatosensory evoked potential activity: a measure of interhemispheric transfer in schizophrenia?
Int J Neurosci 1988;
38:131-40. [PMID:
3356497 DOI:
10.3109/00207458809000492]
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Abstract
Jones and Miller (1981) reported that schizophrenics could be distinguished from healthy controls by latency differences in their ipsilateral and contralateral somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs), considered a measure of corpus callosum conduction time. Subsequent replication studies failed to follow the method of the original study. The present study represents a precise replication. An additional control for contamination of SEPs by an auditory stimulus generated by the vibrotactile stimulus was used. Ipsilateral SEP activity was identified but poor definition of a positive peak in the range of interest prevented measurement of peak latency. Evidence was advanced to suggest that such ipsilateral potentials result from activity at the vertex. It was concluded that this method is inappropriate for the investigation of interhemispheric transmission.
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