Sex differences in olfactory identification and Wisconsin card sorting performance in schizophrenia: Relationship to attention and verbal ability

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 104-115

  Seidman, Larry J ^a,b,e   Goldstein, Jill M ^a,b   Goodman, Julie M ^a,b,c   Koren, Danny ^a,b,d   Turner, Winston M ^a,e   Faraone, Stephen V ^b,e   Tsuang, Ming T ^b,f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive functions; Neuropsychology; Olfaction; Prefrontal; Schizophrenia; Sex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC LANGUAGE; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMELL; VOCABULARY; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0030920995     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(96)00300-9     Document Type: Article

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