Set-Shifting Ability and Schizophrenia: A Marker of Clinical Illness or an Intermediate Phenotype?

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 782-788

  Ceaser, Alan E ^a   Goldberg, Terry E ^a   Egan, Michael F ^a   McMahon, Robert P ^b   Weinberger, Daniel R ^a   Gold, James M ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CANTAB; cognition; executive function; intermediate phenotype; schizophrenia; set shifting; working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX RATIO; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SILOXANES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53249098592     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.05.009     Document Type: Article

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