Laterality of Visuo-Spatial Attention in Acute and Chronic Schizophrenia, Major Depression and in Healthy Controls

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 1091-1095

  O'Carroll, R E ^a   Rogers, A ^a   Lawrie, S M ^a   Murray, C ^a   Van Beck, M ^a   Ebmeier, K P ^a   Walker, M ^a   Blackwood, D ^a   Johnstone, E C ^a   Goodwin, G M ^a  

^a ROYAL EDINBURGH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATERALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0029115897     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291700037582     Document Type: Article

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