Schizophrenic speech as a disordered trajectory in a collapsed cognitive "Small-World"

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 347-352

  Mizraji, Eduardo ^a   Valle Lisboa, Juan C ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH DISORDER; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTITUDE; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; REFERENCE VALUES; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDERS;

EID: 33845316865     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.07.014     Document Type: Article

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