Preliminary evidence of improved verbal working memory performance and normalization of task-related frontal lobe activation in schizophrenia following cognitive exercises

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 157, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1694-1697

  Wexler, B E ^a   Anderson, M ^a   Fulbright, R K ^a   Gore, J C ^a  

^a Yale University School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PILOT PROJECTS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0033797655     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.157.10.1694     Document Type: Article

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