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A significant number of schizophrenic patients show patterns of smooth pursuit eye-tracking patterns that differ strikingly from the generally smooth eye-tracking seen in normals and in nonschizophrenic patients. These deviations are probably referable not only to motivational or attentional factors, but also to oculomotor involvement that may have a critical relevance for perceptual dysfunction in schizophrenia.

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Volume 181 | Issue 4095
13 July 1973

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Philip S. Holzman
Department of Psychiatry, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Leonard R. Proctor
Department of Otolaryngology, Pritzker School of Medicine
Dominic W. Hughes
Department of Otolaryngology, Pritzker School of Medicine

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