Article: Researchers at University of Bern target schizophrenia.

"Patients with schizophrenia have reduced execution functions and white matter alterations indicating cerebral disconnectivity. Here we investigated the relationship between white matter integrity and event related potentials (ERP) during a continuous performance test (CPT)," investigators in Bern, Switzerland report (see also Schizophrenia).

"Anisotropy values were correlated with the brain electrical P300 microstate duration and P300 latency associated to the NoGo- and the Go-stimuli of the CPT in 11 patients with first episode schizophrenia and 11 matched healthy controls. Both groups showed significant positive correlations of the NoGo-microstate duration ...

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