Research Suggsts a New Way to Identify Who Has Schizophrenia [View all]

For our sense of the world to, well, make much sense, we rely on the assumption of a reasonably constant sensory experience.

The same stop sign is going to look the same tomorrow as it does today, which looks the same as it did yesterday. If this were not the case, we might very quickly start having some anxiety about which real is real anyway.

Most of us can take this for granted, but there's a growing body of research suggesting that for schizophrenics, the ability to reliably filter and interpret sensory information is compromised. The world as the brain perceives it can't quite be counted on and this ties into the general schizophrenic syndrome of "disordered thinking." Hallucinations are a natural consequence.

By now a large number of studies have linked deficits in auditory and visual sensory processing with schizophrenia, but there has still existed a significant overlap in these observed deficits between schizophrenic and healthy populations. In other words, sensory deficits don't make for great predictors of the disorder or its future emergence in pre-schizophrenic patients.

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