Cognitive Processing in Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Neuropsychology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 232-239

  Mahurin, Roderick K ^a,d   Goldberg, Jack H ^a   Claypoole, Keith H ^b   Arguelles, Lester ^c   Ashton, Suzanne ^a   Buchwald, Dedra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSPHORIA; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TWIN DISCORDANCE; VELOCITY;

ADULT; COGNITION DISORDERS; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISEASES IN TWINS; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LOGIC; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHENOTYPE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 1942438158     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.18.2.232     Document Type: Article

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