RT Journal
A1 Tarrier N, Vaughn C, Lader MH, Leff JP
T1 BOdily reactions to people and events in schizophrenics
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 1979
FD March 1
VO 36
IS 3
SP 311
OP 315
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.1979.01780030077007
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1979.01780030077007
AB • Schizophrenic patients were tested on psychophysiologic measures within their homes and in the laboratory. Sweat gland activity and heart rate changes when patients encounter novel situations such as life events, together with the home atmosphere generated by a critical or overinvolved relative, confirmed objectively the importance of previous social measures of these factors in determining relapse. Drug effects were also found to be modified by these social factors. Environmental and socially induced changes found in the home were undetectable in the laboratory situation.