The Brief Motor Scale (BMS) for the assessment of motor soft signs in schizophrenic psychoses and other psychiatric disorders

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 142, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 177-189

  Jahn, Thomas ^a,b   Cohen, Rudolf ^b   Hubmann, Werner ^c   Mohr, Fritz ^c   Köhler, Iris ^b   Schlenker, Regine ^b   Niethammer, Rainer ^d   Schröder, Johannes ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c Psychiatric Hospital   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Motor coordination; Neurological soft signs; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

CHLORPROMAZINE; CLOZAPINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATATONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEBEPHRENIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RESIDUAL SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIFORM DISORDER; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECTIVE DISORDERS, PSYCHOTIC; ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 33646841611     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2002.12.002     Document Type: Article

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