Schizophrenia Research
Volume 124, Issue 1 , Pages 119-126 , December 2010

Evidence of specificity of a visual P3 amplitude modulation deficit in schizophrenia

  • Andres H. Neuhaus

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Eschenallee 3, 14050 Berlin, Germany. Tel.: +49 30 8445 8412; fax: +49 30 8445 8393.
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  • Niklas R. Trempler

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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  • Eric Hahn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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  • Alexander Luborzewski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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  • Christine Karl

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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  • Constanze Hahn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biopsychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
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  • Carolin Opgen-Rhein

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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  • Carsten Urbanek

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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  • Rainer Schaub

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geriatric Psychiatry, Klinikum am Weissenhof, Weinsberg, Germany
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  • Michael Dettling

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

Received 16 May 2010 ,Revised 26 June 2010 ,Accepted 2 August 2010.

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PII: S0920-9964(10)01460-X

doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2010.08.014

Schizophrenia Research
Volume 124, Issue 1 , Pages 119-126 , December 2010

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