Linguistic performance in children who develop schizophrenia in adult life. Evidence for normal syntactic ability

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 172, Issue FEB., 1998, Pages 130-135

  Done, D John ^a   Leinonen, Eeva ^a   Crow, Timothy J ^b   Sacker, Amanda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031909574     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.172.2.130     Document Type: Article

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