Performance on tests sensitive to impaired executive ability in schizophrenia, mania and well controls: Acute and subacute phases

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 127-137

  McGrath, John ^a   Scheldt, Susan ^a   Welham, Joy ^a   Clair, Anne ^a  

^a WOLSTON PARK HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Executive ability; Mania; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0030809091     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-9964(97)00070-4     Document Type: Article

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