A potential qualitative endophenotype for schizophrenia: Backward masking response to red light

Jeffrey S. Bedwell; Diana M. Orem; Yuri Rassovsky; Luis G. Allen; Scott R. Sutterby

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2008.03.013

A potential qualitative endophenotype for schizophrenia: Backward masking response to red light

Jeffrey S. Bedwell, Diana M. Orem, Yuri Rassovsky, Luis G. Allen, Scott R. Sutterby

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Abstract

Past research with unaffected relatives of individuals with schizophrenia has suggested a new qualitative endophenotype for schizophrenia that involves a unique change in visual processing response to red light. The current study provides the first report of this "red light effect" in individuals with schizophrenia (N = 15), compared with nonpsychiatric controls (N = 16), using a location backward masking by pattern paradigm with red and green background conditions. Analyses revealed a statistically significant group difference in the overall change in accuracy to a red background. Controls tended to show an increase in accuracy with the red (compared with green) background, although the medium effect size was not statistically significant in the small sample. In contrast, participants with schizophrenia showed a statistically significant decrease in accuracy with the red background. Results support recent reports which have suggested that a unique change in visual processing in response to red light may represent a new endophenotype for schizophrenia. This effect is unique from most existing endophenotypes in that it represents a distinct qualitative performance pattern rather than simply poorer performance relative to a comparison group.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	166-173
Number of pages	8
Journal	Psychiatry Research
Volume	166
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2008.03.013
State	Published - 30 Apr 2009
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
Special thanks to the Center for Behavioral Health at Florida Hospital Orlando for providing the laboratory space for this study, Reesa Donnelly for assistance with data collection, Vidya Kamath for assistance with screening and scheduling the controls, Adam McCowan for assistance with data entry, Dr. Michael Green for assistance with the manuscript, and Dr. Bruno Breitmeyer for help with interpreting the data. The study was funded by an In-House Research Grant to the first author (JSB) from the Office of Research and Commercialization of the University of Central Florida.

Keywords

Cognitive
Genetic
Location backward masking
Magnocellular visual pathway
Masking by pattern
Visual processing

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