Bibliography and Abstracts on Schizophrenia

149 The abstracts that appear below are drawn from the computer-based information storage and retrieval system operated by the National Clearinghouse for Mental Health Information. They were selected for inclusion here on the basis of their direct relevance to schizophrenia: judgments about the quality of the article or book abstracted have been left to the reader. Foreign titles have been translated and the city of the journal's origin noted. Languages that use neither the Latin nor Fraktur (German) alphabets (e.g., the Slavic languages) have been transliterated. Titles of articles, books, and infrequently cited journals have been translated from these languages, and all other identifying information appears in English in their citations. This collection is not exhaustive. The Clearinghouse routinely scans all mental health related literature, and its information system includes references to a great many articles of potential use to readers who are involved with research, training, or treatment in schizophrenia. Many of these references—notably reports of basic research—may not be published in the Bulletin, but are available from the Clearinghouse in other publications or through individually generated bibliographies. Because Psychopharmacology Abstracts publishes a comprehensive list of new articles on drug trials in schizo-phrenia monthly, only those articles that review a number of psychopharmacological studies are published here. Mental health professionals or laypersons actively working in the mental health field who wish to request computer print-outs of late references or comprehensive bibliographies on specific aspects of schizophrenia may write to the following address: Technical Information Section, National Clearing-The articles described in these abstracts are not available from either the Clearinghouse or the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia. Attention , eye tracking and schizo-phrenia. Two experiments were performed to replicate the original reports of a relationship between deviant smooth pursuit eye tracking (SPET) performance (recorded using elec-trostagmographic techniques) and schizophrenia, and to investigate the consistency of schizophrenic eye tracking performance and possible causes of inconsistent performance, as well as the effect of experimentally induced distraction on eye tracking performance. The first experiment successfully replicated the earlier findings linking SPET and schizo-phrenia, while the second experiment showed that a distracting task had a disruptive effect on SPET performance by normal controls. The results of the experiments are interpreted as evidence that SPET performance is sensitive to superficial inattention, and that deficits in schizophrenic performance are best explained by attentional deficits in the schizophrenics.