Delayed habituation of the skin-conductance orienting response correlates with impaired performance on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task in schizophrenia

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 107-112

  Schiffer, Richard A ^a   Sigal, Mircha ^a   Mintz, Matti ^b  

^a LEV HASHARON MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

autonomic function; neuropsychology; prefrontal cortex; psychophysiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0030588720     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(96)02845-4     Document Type: Article

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