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Distinct sensory profiles in early psychosis revealed by low-cost feature-specific visual and auditory psychophysical testing

2026-01-24 psychiatry and clinical psychology Title + abstract only
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ObjectiveCharacterization of psychosis typically relies on cognitive and behavioral assessments. This study suggests the use of feature-specific sensory experiments to detect subtle perceptual alterations in early psychosis. MethodsPatients (N=120) diagnosed with schizophrenia (SCHZ, N=45), bipolar disorder (BIP, N=36), or first-episode psychosis (FEP, N=39), recruited from public mental health facilities in Brazil, were compared with age-matched healthy controls (HCSCHZ, HCBIP, and HCFEP; pool...

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