Link between Eye Movement and Schizophrenia

"A study of eye movements in schizophrenia patients provides new evidence of impaired reading fluency in individuals with the mental illness," according to Science Daily. "The findings, by researchers at McGill University in Montreal, could open avenues to earlier detection and intervention for people with the illness. While schizophrenia patients are known to have abnormalities in language and in eye movements, until recently reading ability was believed to be unaffected. That is because most previous studies examined reading in schizophrenia using single-word reading tests, the McGill researchers conclude. Such tests aren't sensitive to problems in reading fluency, which is affected by the context in which words appear and by eye movements that shift attention from one word to the next." Read more.

Eye Movement Discriminates Schizophrenia Cases

"There is a long history of research on impaired eye movements associated with schizophrenia," says Science Daily. "Using a series of simple viewing tests, researchers explored the ability of these eye movement tests to distinguish people with and without the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Using their complete dataset, they were able to develop a model that could discriminate all schizophrenia cases from healthy control subjects with an impressive 98.3% accuracy." Read more.