{"id":863,"date":"2014-04-02T17:18:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T22:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=863"},"modified":"2014-04-24T12:31:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T17:31:11","slug":"tracing-the-brain-noise-of-schizophrenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/tracing-the-brain-noise-of-schizophrenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracing the \u2018brain noise\u2019 of schizophrenia<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using a simple eye-tracking experiment, researchers have shown that patients with schizophrenia make more errors when trying to locate visual signals than control patients. The pattern of errors can be used to make computer models of the noise in what are called \u2018corollary discharge signals.\u2019 These signals are how one part of the brain keeps track of what the other parts are doing, and are often disrupted in patients with schizophrenia. The models could help in both diagnosis and treatment of the disorder.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jneurosci.org\/content\/34\/14\/4760.short\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Journal of Neuroscience<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>April 2, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong><strong>\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mni.mcgill.ca\/neuro_team\/complex_neural\/christopher_pack\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Pack<\/a>, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a simple eye-tracking experiment, researchers have shown that patients with schizophrenia make more errors when trying to locate visual signals than control patients. The pattern of errors can be used to make computer models of the noise in what are called \u2018corollary discharge signals.\u2019 These signals are how one part of the brain keeps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[992,51,53,1000],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-brain","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-dV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}