Deficits in neurocognition, theory of mind, and social functioning in patients with schizophrenic disorders: Are they related?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 153-156

  Bâ, Maryse Badan ^a   Zanello, Adriano ^a   Varnier, Marion ^a   Koellner, Vanessa ^a   Merlo, Marco C G ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Neurocognition; Schizophrenic disorders; Social functioning; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADULT; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; ATTENTION; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 39149138129     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318162aa08     Document Type: Article

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