Clinical attributes of schizophrenic skin conductance responders and non-responders
- 1 May 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 6 (2) , 245-249
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700013787
Abstract
Synopsis Nurses rated schizophrenics, subclassified upon the basis of the presence or absence of electrodermal orienting responses, with Wittenborn scales. Amongst non-institutionalized patients responders, who are more highly aroused psychophysiologically than non-responders, were more manic, anxious, assaultive and attention-demanding. Amongst institutionalized patients skin conductance levels and spontaneous fluctuations were associated with behaviour of a schizophrenic character.Keywords
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