The schizoictal syndrome
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Investigating the Effects of Antipsychotics and Schizotypy on the N400 Using Event-Related Potentials and Semantic Categorization
Published on: November 19, 2014
Teresa Biermann1, Wolfgang Sperling
1Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Erlangen, Germany.
Abstract:
There are several common denominators of schizophrenia and epilepsy including models of pathogenesis as well as their clinical occurrence mainly referring to schizophrenia-like syndrome in epilepsy or similar clinical entities [1]. Up to now it has not been emphasized that a process of synchronization or desynchronization of neuronal cell structures within the context of neuronal plasticity might be a plausible pathogenetic mechanism of epilepsy as well as schizophrenia. Clinical as well as therapeutical implications of this hypothesis on the basis of scientific evidence are discussed.
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