Attenuating demographic influences on verbal fluency and animal naming in a psychiatric sample

Applied Neuropsychology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 208-212

  O'Bryant, Sid E ^a   O'Jile, Judith R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Psychiatric participants; WAIS III vocabulary; Word fluency; WRAT3 reading recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHIATRY; PUBLICATION; READING; READING RECOGNITION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL FLUENCY; WIDE RANGE ACHIEVEMENT TEST;

EID: 13944250563     PISSN: 09084282     EISSN: 15324826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15324826an1104_6     Document Type: Article

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