Test-retest Reliability of the National Adult Reading Test (NART) as an Estimate of Premorbid IQ in Patients with Schizophrenia

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-80

  Smith, Deidre ^a,b   Roberts, Susan ^b   Brewer, Warrick ^a   Pantelis, Christos ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^c NH and MRC Brain Netwk Res M   (Australia)

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EID: 0002032134     PISSN: 13546805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135468098396251     Document Type: Article

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