Verbal fluency in schizophrenia: Relationship with executive function, semantic memory and clinical alogia

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-49

  Joyce, E M ^a   Collinson, S L ^a   Crichton, P ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MEMORY; PARKINSON DISEASE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030070679     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0033291700033705     Document Type: Article

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