Relationship of the Wender Utah Rating Scale to objective measures of attention

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 468-471

  Mackin, R Scott ^a   Horner, Michael David ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OUTPATIENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RATING SCALE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WENDER UTAH RATING SCALE;

ADULT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 27644589506     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2005.03.004     Document Type: Article

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