Heightened stimulus salience renders deluded schizophrenics less susceptible to the 'famous names illusion' [5]

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 80, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 369-371

  Menon, Mahesh ^a,b,c   Woodward, Todd S ^d   Pomarol Clotet, Edith ^a   McKenna, Peter J ^e   McCarthy, Rosaleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Riverview Hospital   (Canada)

^c CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^d RIVERVIEW HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e FULBOURN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; ILLUSION; LETTER; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STIMULUS;

ADULT; DELUSIONS; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NAMES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 28244471004     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2005.02.002     Document Type: Letter

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