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Psychiatry Res ; 300: 113907, 2021 06.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33839423

ABSTRACT

N400 evoked response potentials (ERP) reliably map key semantic deficits in schizophrenia. Assessing them as endophenotypes might help in better understanding of schizophrenia risk and their use as biomarkers. We aimed to study N400 as an endophenotype marker by comparing schizophrenia (SCZ), unaffected first-degree relatives (FDR) and healthy controls (HC) and, by assessing its ability to discriminate these groups. Drug naïve or free SCZ probands (n=30), their unaffected FDRs (n=30) and HC (n=30), underwent a 40-channel ERP recording while performing a custom-made, Hindi- sentence context paradigm task, containing congruent and incongruent conditions. Fifteen centro-parietal (CP) leads, further classified into three regions-midline (CPM), right (CPR) and left (CPL) were selected as electrodes-of-interest for assessing N400. During the incongruent condition, compared to both FDRs and HC, SCZ showed significantly longer N400 latency, at CPM, CPR and CPL, and significantly lesser (more negative) amplitude, at CPM; no significant difference was noted between FDR and HC groups. On discriminant functional analysis, significant N400 predictors could accurately classify 73.3% SCZ from HC and 75% of SCZ from FDR. We conclude that N400 deficits, elicited by the incongruent condition of the sentence task, could be potential biomarkers to define disease state in schizophrenia; they may not be endophenotype markers.


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Endophenotypes , Schizophrenia , Electroencephalography , Evoked Potentials , Family , Female , Humans , Male , Schizophrenia/genetics , Semantics
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Indian J Psychol Med ; 40(3): 225-231, 2018.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29875529

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INTRODUCTION: There is growing awareness of the heterogeneity of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and of the multiple systems involved in its pathogenesis. Identification of obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (OCSDs) may have important implications in the management and prognosis of OCD, but there is a paucity of research in the domain of identification of OCSD in probands with OCD. There are few studies that have examined OCSD in the first-degree relatives (FDR) of OCD patients, some of these were not controlled, and these studies have no final agreements over outcomes, and therefore, this area needs to be further explored. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of OCSDs in OCD probands; and its relationship to sociodemographic and clinical variables, comparing each aspect by a control group of schizophrenia probands. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sixty patients each of OCD and schizophrenia, diagnosed by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV Text Revision,[1] above 18 years of age and giving informed consent, were interviewed using the Structured Clinical Interview for OCSD, Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Rating Scale, Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, and Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety. RESULTS: In OCD group, 22 OCSDs were found in 11 subjects whereas in schizophrenia group, 2 OCSDs (self-injury) were found in two probands. When the two groups were compared in terms of individual OCSDs, there was no significant difference between them. However, when the comparison was made taking into account all OCSDs taken together, it was significantly higher (P = 0.016) in the OCD group compared to the schizophrenia group. CONCLUSION: OCSDs were significantly more in OCD probands as compared to schizophrenia probands. This suggests a familial aggregation of these disorders.

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Percept Mot Skills ; 110(3 Pt 2): 1139-48, 2010 Jun.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20866002

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Although the literature indicates that meditation has beneficial effects on several aspects of human functioning, few studies have specifically investigated the effects of meditation on various domains of attention. This study was conducted to examine the differences in various domains of attention between long-term concentrative meditators versus matched controls. 15 practitioners of Vihangam Yoga (> 10 yr. experience) were enrolled in the study. Controls matched on age, sex, and years of education were recruited. Both groups were administered the Stroop, Trail-Making, and Digit Symbol Substitution tests as well as the Digit Forward and Digit Backward tests. The group of Vihangam Yogis had significantly better mean performance on all tests of attention. Long-term Vihangam Yoga meditation improves attention span, processing speed, attention alternation ability, and performance in interference tests.


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Attention , Meditation/psychology , Neuropsychological Tests/statistics & numerical data , Practice, Psychological , Yoga/psychology , Discrimination, Psychological , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Pattern Recognition, Visual , Psychometrics , Psychomotor Performance , Reference Values , Stroop Test
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Indian J Psychiatry ; 50(3): 202-8, 2008 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19742233

ABSTRACT

The history of clinical frontal lobe study is long and rich which provides valuable insights into neuropsychologic determinants of functions of prefrontal cortex (PFC). PFC is often classified as multimodal association cortex as extremely processed information from various sensory modalities is integrated here in a precise fashion to form the physiologic constructs of memory, perception, and diverse cognitive processes. Human neuropsychologic studies also support the notion of different functional operations within the PFC. The specification of the component 'executive' processes and their localization to particular regions of PFC have been implicated in a wide variety of psychiatric disorders.

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