Elucidating semantic disorganisation from a word comprehension task: Do patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder show differential processing of nouns, verbs and adjectives?

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 102, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 63-68

  Rossell, Susan L ^a,b,c   Batty, Rachel A ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Schizophrenia; Semantic disorganisation; Word comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMPREHENSION; CONTROL GROUPS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; READING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 46449090222     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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