Brain-signal study links timing and speech symptoms in schizophrenia
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A McGill-led study compared magnetoencephalography readings from 25 people with schizophrenia and 25 controls during a sight-and-sound timing task, alongside speech assessments. The patient group showed weaker and slower beta-band activity, with larger differences associated with timing problems, disorganized speech and greater clinical severity. Researchers say the modest sample requires independent replication; the finding is not a diagnostic test or treatment.
Why it matters
The work points to one possible mechanism connecting several symptoms, while remaining early-stage research.
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