Personality Questionnaire
Title of project:
The effect of schizotypy on the performance of biomarker assessments; modulation by risperidone, amisulpride and nicotine
The research:
Three universities are examining the effects of a single dose of standard treatments for psychosis on computer tests in healthy people. People usually take these medicines every day for years. We want to know if a normal personality trait called schizotypy affects the results.
The richness of human personality can be measured by various personality questionnaires. Most people in the general population have a mixture of high, low and average scores. We want to find people with average schizotypy scores and with those who have above average scores to compare how they perform on the computer tests in this research project.
Perfectly healthy and pleasant people can have high or low schizotypy scores - in fact this study only involves people who are well and reasonably happy. High scores in healthy people may be linked to creativity and imagination.
This study is being carried out at three centres, University of Manchester, Cardiff University and Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. The research has been approved by North West Research Ethics Committee Ref. 08/H1010/2
