Asian Journal of Psychiatry 5 (2012) 53
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Commentary
Commentary-Asian Pearls Tarek A. Okasha * Okasha Institute of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
A R T I C L E I N F O
Article history: Received 15 February 2012 Received in revised form 15 February 2012 Accepted 15 February 2012
This commentary is on the accompanying article on ‘‘The study of acoustic startle reflex in male patients with chronic schizophrenia’’ by Zhiren Wang and colleagues (Chinese Journal of 2010,
* Tel.: +(202) 29200 900/1/2/3/4; fax: +(202) 29200 908. E-mail address: [email protected]. 1876-2018/$ – see front matter ß 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.ajp.2012.02.011
43: 135–39). This paper, originally published in Chinese, is presented here to show examples of important research findings that are not published in the major search engines might be missed in the international literature. This study compared the acoustic startle reflex, habituation of startle reflex and pre-pulse inhibition of startle reflex between schizophrenia patients on first and second generation antipsychotics and controls and relates the results with patient symptomatology. These results need to be replicated on a sample of female Chinese patients as well as across other cultures.
Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect
Asian Journal of Psychiatry journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ajp
Commentary
Commentary-Asian Pearls Tarek A. Okasha * Okasha Institute of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
A R T I C L E I N F O
Article history: Received 15 February 2012 Received in revised form 15 February 2012 Accepted 15 February 2012
This commentary is on the accompanying article on ‘‘The study of acoustic startle reflex in male patients with chronic schizophrenia’’ by Zhiren Wang and colleagues (Chinese Journal of 2010,
* Tel.: +(202) 29200 900/1/2/3/4; fax: +(202) 29200 908. E-mail address: [email protected]. 1876-2018/$ – see front matter ß 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.ajp.2012.02.011
43: 135–39). This paper, originally published in Chinese, is presented here to show examples of important research findings that are not published in the major search engines might be missed in the international literature. This study compared the acoustic startle reflex, habituation of startle reflex and pre-pulse inhibition of startle reflex between schizophrenia patients on first and second generation antipsychotics and controls and relates the results with patient symptomatology. These results need to be replicated on a sample of female Chinese patients as well as across other cultures.
