“…The oddball paradigm has been most often used to assess patients with schizophrenia, and auditory stimuli demonstrate the strongest P300 effects (Ford, 1999; Pfefferbaum, Ford, White, & Roth, 1989). Several studies have reported that P300 is related to clinical symptom severity, with negative (Eikmeier, Lodemann, Zerbin, & Gastpar, 1992; Galderisi, Maj, Mucci, Monteleone, & Kemali, 1988; Juckel, Muller‐Schubert, Gaebel, & Hegerl, 1996; Maeda, Morita, Kawamura, & Nakazawa, 1996; Merrin & Floyd, 1994; Pallanti, Quercioli, & Pazzagli, 1999a; Pfefferbaum et al, 1989; Strandburg et al, 1994; Strik, Dierks, & Maurer, 1993), positive (Bougerol, Benraiss, & Scotto, 1996; Egan et al, 1994; Kawasaki et al, 1997; McCarley et al, 1989; O'Donnell et al, 1993), and both (Ford, 1999; Frodl‐Bauch, Gallinat, Meisenzahl, Möller, & Hegerl, 1999; Mathalon, Ford, & Pfefferbaum, 2000; Turetsky, Colbath, & Gur, 1998a, 1998b) symptom categories contributing to these findings. In addition, schizophrenia subtypes affect P300, such that component amplitude from patients exhibiting paranoid symptoms is larger than P300 components from disorganized/undifferentiated subtypes using auditory stimuli (Boutros et al, 1997).…”