Assessing the relationship between insight and everyday executive deficits in schizophrenia: A pilot study

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 151, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 47-54

  Jovanovski, Diana ^a   Zakzanis, Konstantine K ^a   Young, Donald A ^a   Campbell, Zachariah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

BADS; Cognitive flexibility; Ecological validity; Executive function; Insight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOURAL ASSESSMENT OF THE DYSEXECUTIVE SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTROSPECTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RULE OF SHIFT CARDS; SCALE TO ASSESS UNAWARENESS OF MENTAL DISORDER; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; AGED; APTITUDE; AWARENESS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SICK ROLE; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 34247373553     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2006.09.012     Document Type: Article

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