PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Eleanor S. Smith
AU  - Trevor J. Crawford
AU  - Vincent M. Reid
TI  - The influence of Schizotypy on Event-Related Oscillations in Sensory Gating during early Infant Development
AID  - 10.1101/2020.06.10.144014
DP  - 2020 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 2020.06.10.144014
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/06/10/2020.06.10.144014.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/06/10/2020.06.10.144014.full
AB  - Maternal schizotypic personality is thought to influence childhood risk for mental health and is a personality dimension elevated among schizophrenia-spectrum patients and their first-degree relatives, in whom neuro-oscillatory deficits have been observed. The current study investigated whether 6-month-old infants (n =46), and a subset of their biological mothers (n =34), who identified as either schizotypic (n =14) non-schizotypic (n =14), or an intermediate group (n =6), displayed reduced evoked-oscillatory activity. All mothers completed the Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences as an index of schizotypy dimensionality. An auditory paired-tone paradigm was used to probe oscillatory activity, revealing that although the infants’ evoked-oscillations displayed differences between Stimulus 1 and 2, there were no group differences between infants of schizotypic and control mothers. Their mothers, however, displayed differences, with reduced amplitudes toward Stimulus 1 in schizotypic mothers; consistent with literature on early sensory processes, showing sensory gating is impaired in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.