The effect of verbalization strategy on Wisconsin Card Sorting Test performance in schizophrenic patients receiving classical or atypical antipsychotics

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Rossi, Alessandro ^a   Daneluzzo, Enrico ^a   Tomassini, Annarita ^a   Struglia, Francesca ^a   Cavallaro, Roberto ^b   Smeraldi, Enrico ^b   Stratta, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; CHLORPROMAZINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATURALISTIC INQUIRY; PERSEVERATION; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

EID: 33144485734     PISSN: 1471244X     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-6-3     Document Type: Article

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