Heritability of Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) and Stroop Color-Word Test performance in normal individuals: Implications for the search for endophenotypes

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 829-834

  Taylor, Jeanette ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HEAD INJURY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROOP COLOR WORD TEST; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 37349129049     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/twin.10.6.829     Document Type: Article

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