A Simple Spatial Working Memory and Attention Test on Paired Symbols Shows Developmental Deficits in Schizophrenia Patients | Zendy

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A Simple Spatial Working Memory and Attention Test on Paired Symbols Shows Developmental Deficits in Schizophrenia Patients

Author(s) -

Wei Song,

Kai Zhang,

Jinhua Sun,

Lina Ma,

Forrest Fabian Jesse,

Xiaochun Teng,

Minghao Yin,

Hechen Bao,

Shiqing Chen,

Shuai Wang,

Beimeng Yang,

Xixia Chu,

Wenhua Ding,

Yasong Du,

Zaohuo Cheng,

Bin Wu,

Shanguang Chen,

Guang He,

Lin He,

Xiaoping Chen,

Weidong Li

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

neural plasticity

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.288

H-Index - 68

eISSN - 2090-5904

pISSN - 1687-5443

DOI - 10.1155/2013/130642

Subject(s) - working memory , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychology , audiology , test (biology) , visual spatial attention , attention deficits , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , cognition , psychiatry , visual attention , medicine , paleontology , biology

People with neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia often display deficits in spatial working memory and attention. Evaluating working memory and attention in schizophrenia patients is usually based on traditional tasks and the interviewer's judgment. We developed a simple Spatial Working Memory and Attention Test on Paired Symbols (SWAPS). It takes only several minutes to complete, comprising 101 trials for each subject. In this study, we tested 72 schizophrenia patients and 188 healthy volunteers in China. In a healthy control group with ages ranging from 12 to 60, the efficiency score (accuracy divided by reaction time) reached a peak in the 20–27 age range and then declined with increasing age. Importantly, schizophrenia patients failed to display this developmental trend in the same age range and adults had significant deficits compared to the control group. Our data suggests that this simple Spatial Working Memory and Attention Test on Paired Symbols can be a useful tool for studies of spatial working memory and attention in neuropsychiatric disorders.

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