Executive function in Tourette's syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 571-582

  Watkins, Laura H ^a   Sahakian, Barbara Jenny ^b   Robertson, Mary M ^d   Veale, David M ^d   Rogers, Robert D ^c,e   Pickard, Kathryn M ^a   Aitken, Michael R F ^c   Robbins, Trevor W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UK   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL GENETICS; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TEST; NEUROBIOLOGY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PLANNING; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; RECOGNITION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL MEMORY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 17344369559     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291704003691     Document Type: Article

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