Increased automatic spreading activation in healthy subjects with elevated scores in a scale assessing schizophrenic language disturbances

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 161-170

  Moritz, Steffen ^a   Andresen, B ^b   Domin, F ^b   Martin, T ^b   Probsthein, E ^b   Kretschmer, G ^b   Krausz, M ^b   Naber, D ^b   Spitzer, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0032923270     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291798007831     Document Type: Article

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