IMPLICATIONS OF BASAL GANGLIONIC DYSFUNCTION FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 14  (1) , 3-12
Abstract
Data from the experimental and clinical literature suggest a basal ganglionic role in higher cognitive processes, affect and attention. Deficits of these same factors serve to characterize the major symptoms of schizophrenia. Psychiatric patients tend to have frank motor problems characteristic of basal ganglia lesions and pathological conditions of the basal ganglia manifest psychiatric difficulties as a major symptom. Some dysfunction involving the basal ganglia is apparently a major factor in schizophrenia.

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