“…Investigations employing the P3 component, which is thought to reflect automatic processing of novelty and memory updating, have demonstrated significant deficits in at-risk subjects compared to healthy controls (44, 59, 62, 65, 70–76). Thereby, the P3 deficit in the at-risk state seems to be tantamount to the impairment observed in first-episode psychosis, but less severe compared to recent onset and chronic schizophrenia, respectively (44, 59, 62, 65, 72, 75).…”