Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Early visual information processing in schizophrenia compared to recurrent depression.

Bjørn Rishovd Rund1, Jens Egeland, Kjetil Sundet

  • 1Institute of Psychology, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1094, Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway. b.r.rund@psykologi.uio.no

Schizophrenia Research
|April 22, 2004
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Effects of an individualized and goal-oriented intervention in the chronic phase of pediatric acquired brain injury: the Child in Context Intervention (CICI)-a randomized controlled trial.

BMC pediatrics·2026
Same author

Cerebral cortical alterations in adolescent early-onset psychosis: a surface-based morphometry mega-analysis.

Molecular psychiatry·2026
Same author

Predictors of high- and low-risk drinking after group treatment for alcohol use disorder - CORRIGENDUM.

BJPsych open·2026
Same author

Drawbacks of Olanzapine Therapy: An Emphasis on Its Metabolic Effects and Discontinuation.

Journal of clinical medicine·2025
Same author

Tick-borne encephalitis in Norway: A cohort study of clinical course and health-related quality of life at three- and twelve-month follow-up.

European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology·2025
Same author

Predictors of high- and low-risk drinking after group treatment for alcohol use disorder.

BJPsych open·2025
Same journal

Quality evaluation of randomized controlled trials of antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia published in Chinese journals.

Schizophrenia research·2026
Same journal

FL-SDGIN: A federated graph learning approach for schizophrenia diagnosis integrating static and dynamic brain functional networks.

Schizophrenia research·2026
Same journal

Weight loss and gut microbial changes associated with semaglutide among people living with schizophrenia receiving clozapine or olanzapine: An open-label 24-week semaglutide intervention and 76-week trial.

Schizophrenia research·2026
Same journal

Converting negative symptom dimension scores across SANS and PANSS.

Schizophrenia research·2026
Same journal

Inflammation-associated alterations in mGluR transcript expression in the human nucleus accumbens independent of schizophrenia diagnosis.

Schizophrenia research·2026
Same journal

One social interaction after another: Dynamic modeling of social experience in schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia research·2026
See all related articles

Schizophrenia patients show visual processing deficits on backward visual masking (VBM) tasks, unlike those with depression. VBM performance correlated with positive symptoms in schizophrenia.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Clinical psychology
  • Psychiatry

Background:

  • Patients with schizophrenia exhibit visual processing deficits.
  • Backward visual masking (VBM) tasks assess early visual processing.
  • Specificity of VBM deficits in schizophrenia remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Compare VBM performance in schizophrenia, depression, and healthy controls.
  • Investigate the specificity of visual processing deficits in schizophrenia.
  • Examine the relationship between VBM performance and clinical symptoms.

Main Methods:

  • Recruited 51 schizophrenia patients, 49 recurrent unipolar depression patients, and 47 healthy controls.
  • Administered a two-digit identification task under no-masking and four masking conditions.

Related Experiment Videos

  • Compared performance across groups and correlated VBM with clinical symptoms.

    • Main Results:

    • Schizophrenia patients performed significantly worse than controls on four of five conditions.
    • No significant difference in VBM performance was found between depression patients and controls.
    • VBM performance strongly correlated with positive symptoms in the schizophrenia group.

    Conclusions:

    • Visual processing deficits measured by VBM appear specific to schizophrenia, not a general feature of mood disorders.
    • VBM may serve as a potential objective marker for certain symptoms in schizophrenia.