Sunday, November 4, 2012

New '100% accurate' test diagnoses schizophrenics simply by checking their gaze

Scientists have developed an almost 100 per cent accurate test to detect schizophrenics - by checking their gaze.
Impaired eye movement has long been thought to be associated with schizophrenia.
Now a new study has reported a model of testing which demonstrated 98 per cent accuracy in distinguishing between those with and without schizophrenia.
Using 'simple viewing tests', researchers at Aberdeen University explored the ability of eye movement tests to sort schizophrenics from healthy people.
People with schizophrenia showed well-documented deficits in the ability to track slow moving objects smoothly with their eyes.
Their eye movements tended to fall behind the moving object and then catch up again using rapid eye movements called 'saccades'.

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2225792/New-100-accurate-test-diagnose-schizophrenics.html

 

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