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SUBMITTER: Owens EM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4785844 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar-Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Owens Emily M EM Bachman Peter P Glahn David C DC Bearden Carrie E CE
Harvard review of psychiatry 20160301 2
Endophenotypes are quantitative, heritable traits that may help to elucidate the pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying complex disease syndromes, such as schizophrenia. They can be assessed at numerous levels of analysis; here, we review electrophysiological endophenotypes that have shown promise in helping us understand schizophrenia from a more mechanistic point of view. For each endophenotype, we describe typical experimental procedures, reliability, heritability, and reported gene and neuro ...[more]